Velvetleaf huckleberry |
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Vaccinium myrtilloides Michx. One of the sweetest blueberries.
A low-spreading deciduous shrub growing up to 50 cm (20 inches) tall, often spreading to form small thickets. The leaves are bright green, paler underneath with velvety hairs. The flowers are white, bell-shaped, 5 millimeters (1⁄4 in) long. The fruit is a small sweet bright blue to dark blue berry. Young stems have stiff dense bristly hairs. Cultivated and grown commercially in Canada and Maine, primarily harvested from managed wild patches. Cuisine The Abenaki consume the fruit as part of their traditional diet. The Nihithawak Cree ate the berries raw, making them into jam eating them with fish and bannock, and boiling or pounding the sun-dried berries into pemmican. The Hesquiaht First Nation make pies and preserves from the berries. The Hoh and Quileute consume the fruit raw, stew the berries and make them into a sauce, and can the berries and use them as winter food. The Ojibwa make use of the berries, gathering and selling them, eating them fresh, sun drying, and canning them for future use. The Nlaka'pamux make the berries into pies. The Algonquin people gather the fruit to eat and sell. The berries are part of Potawatomi traditional cuisine and are eaten fresh, dried, and canned. Medicine The Nihithawak Cree used a decoction of leafy stems used to bring menstruation and prevent pregnancy, to make a person sweat, to slow excessive menstrual bleeding, to bring blood after childbirth, and to prevent miscarriage. The Potawatomi also use the root bark of the plant for an unspecified ailment. Tibber can be your huckleberry! Source Wikipedia/HAZ |
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