Huckleberries
Are huckleberries meant to look like deadly nightshade.,or has my neighbour made a terrible mistake.
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Huckleberries
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saunxders writes Are huckleberries meant to look like deadly nightshade.,or has my neighbour made a terrible mistake. There is more than one plant known as huckleberry. the garden huckleberry that you can grow easily here is the same as/close relative of black nightshade, which looks like a non-climbing deadly nightshade. But he shouldn't eat them unless he is sure that what has come up is what he planted. -- Kay Easton Edward's earthworm page: http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm |
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from ken saunxders contains these words: Are huckleberries meant to look like deadly nightshade.,or has my neighbour made a terrible mistake. Huckleberries look like blueberries. Garden huckleberries look like *BLACK* nightshade. (The berries of which, when ripe are edible.) -- Rusty Hinge horrid·squeak&zetnet·co·uk http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/tqt.htm |
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from Kay Easton contains these words: There is more than one plant known as huckleberry. the garden huckleberry that you can grow easily here is the same as/close relative of black nightshade, which looks like a non-climbing deadly nightshade. But he shouldn't eat them unless he is sure that what has come up is what he planted. Deadly nightshade doesn't climb. Upright plant with leaves similar to black nightshade, but with quite large dull greenish-purple bell-shaped flowers and tangerine-shaped black berries with a large green calyx. Woody nightshade climbs and has tomato-like flowers with blue petals and a yellow centre, and has trusses of poisonous little red plum tomatoes. Black nightshade and its big brother the Garden Huckleberry have similarly shaped flowers with white petals and yellow centres, and trusses of round black tomatoes and cannot be mistaken for deadly nightshade, whose fruit grows singly. -- Rusty Hinge horrid·squeak&zetnet·co·uk http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/tqt.htm |
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Jaques d'Altrades wrote: The message m from ken saunxders contains these words: Are huckleberries meant to look like deadly nightshade.,or has my neighbour made a terrible mistake. Huckleberries look like blueberries. Garden huckleberries look like *BLACK* nightshade. (The berries of which, when ripe are edible.) See a previous thread. The berries of SOME STRAINS OF black nightshade are edible; it is unclear that all strains are. I shall continue with my practice of experimenting with many wild plants, but not the Solanaceae. It is very bizarre that two families that include many of the most important food plants (the Solanaceae and Fabaceae/Leguminoseae/etc.) also include many of the most poisonous plants. But it is so. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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