Black huckleberry

Black huckleberries (Gaylussacia baccata) are a favorite wild edible because they are easy to find and identify, and tasty enough to eat by the handful. They taste similar to their wild blueberry c…

In this week’s box you found huckleberries, a fruit that is actually more related to tomatoes and eggplants than to blueberries and raspberries. There are a variety of wild blueberries that are called huckleberries that grow in more northerly climates, but those are different than the dark purple-black berries you received this week. These fruits […]

A much-branched, stiff, colony-forming shrub, 1-2 ft. tall, with white, tubular flowers in axillary panicles on the previous season growth. Purplish-black, edible berries follow. The small, oval leaves turn shades of orange and crimson in the fall. A

Black Huckleberry Vaccinium spp. berry is sweeter than the Red huckleberry. berry is high in vitamin C. an edible look-alike is the Blueberr...

A delicious preserve made from a rare nightshade fruit that tastes like a cross between blueberry and concord grape jelly.

Black Huckleberry (Gaylussacia baccata)

Learn how to identify huckleberries and what a huckleberry bush looks like. It's so much fun to find huckleberries on your own, be safe and learn how to identify them!

Idaho huckleberries :D #food

Black huckleberries (Gaylussacia baccata) are hardy deciduous shrubs that are native to much of eastern North America. They are characterized by leaves

Gaylussacia baccata is a deciduous Shrub growing to 1 m (3ft 3in) by 1 m (3ft 3in). See above for USDA hardiness. It is hardy to UK zone 6. It is in flower from May to June. The species is hermaphrodite (has both male and female organs). Suitable for: light (sandy), medium (loamy) and heavy (clay) soils and prefers well-drained soil. Suitable pH: mildly acid soils and can grow in very acid soils. It can grow in semi-shade (light woodland) or no shade. It prefers dry or moist soil.