User:Sonjaaa/List of edible berries

Because many types of berries thrive in subarctic and humid continental climates and soil types, some parts of the world have become famous for their unique berries.


  • mountain cranberry ( Vaccinium Vitis-ldaea),
  • bilberry or whortleberry (Vaccinium uliginosum),

Which onese are grown on a commercial scale?

Rose family (Rosaceae) edit

Serviceberries (Amelanchier) edit

  • (Amelanchier alnifolia), saskatoon berry in Western North America
  • Amelanchier "lamarckii"

Rubus edit

The blackberries, as well as various other Rubus species with mounding or rambling growth habits, are often called bramble fruits. However, this name is not used for those like the raspberry that grow as upright canes, or for trailing or prostrate species such as most dewberries, or various low-growing boreal, arctic, or alpine species.

Name Picture Distribution

Cloudberry (Rubus chamaemorus)

  • Canada: bakeapple
  • Finnish: lakka, (suo)muurain, hilla, lintti, valokki
  • Norwegian: multe
  • Swedish: hjortron
   
  • Blackberry, of which there are many species and hybrids, such as dewberry, boysenberry, olallieberry, and tayberry
  • Loganberry (Rubus loganobaccus)
  • Raspberry, several species (genus Rubus)
  • Salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis)
  • Thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus)
  • Wineberry (Rubus phoenicolasius)
  • Rubus × loganobaccus: loganberry (cross of Rubus idaeus and blackberry
  • Rubus fruticosus: common blackberry
  • marionberry
  • Rubus ursinus cv. Young: youngberry
  • Rubus ursinus × idaeus: boysenberry
  • Rubus idaeus: common raspberry
  • Rubus spectabilis: salmonberry
  • Rubus idaeus – European Red Raspberry
  • Rubus strigosus – American Red Raspberry
  • Rubus arcticus – Arctic Raspberry or Arctic Bramble
  • Loganberry (Rubus × loganobaccus).
  • Boysenberry Rubus ursinus x idaeus
  • Rubus allegheniensis – Allegheny Blackberry
  • Rubus armeniacus – Himalayan Blackberry
  • Rubus caesius – European Dewberry
  • Rubus canadensis – Canadian Blackberry
  • Rubus chamaemorus – Cloudberry
  • Rubus coreanus - Bokbunja
  • Rubus cuneifolius – Sand Blackberry
  • Rubus fruticosus agg. – Blackberry
  • Rubus leucodermis – Whitebark Raspberry or Western Raspberry
  • Rubus occidentalis – Black Raspberry
  • Rubus odoratus – Flowering Raspberry
  • Rubus pensilvanicus – Pennsylvania Blackberry
  • Rubus saxatilis – Stone Bramble


Strawberries (Fragaria) edit

  • Fragaria × ananassa: garden strawberry
  • Fragaria vesca: Alpine or Woodland Strawberry
  • Fragaria moschata: musk strawberry

Prunus edit

  • Prunus virginiana: chokecherry

Aronia edit

  • Aronia chokeberries

Hawthorn (Crataegus) edit

  • Crataegus monogyna: called hawberry in Canada

Honeysuckle family (Caprifoliaceae) edit


Currant and gooseberry family (Grossulariaceae) edit

Ribes edit

Name Picture Distribution
Blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum)   distribution
Gooseberry (Ribes uva-crispa, syn. R. grossularia)   distro
Redcurrant (Ribes rubrum)   distribution
Ribes triste
  • English: swamp redcurrant, wild redcurrant, northern currant
  • Dena'ina: nunazk'et'i "that which hangs down", jeghdenghult'ila "ear it's tied onto"
pic distro

wolfberry (Goji berry)

  • Gooseberry (Ribes spp.; Grossulariaceae)
  • Jostaberry?

Accessory fruits edit

gooseberry, cranberry,

strawberry?

  • Bearberry (Arctostaphylos spp.)
  • Strawberry Tree (Arbutus unedo), not to be confused with the Strawberry (Fragaria)

Multiple fruit edit

The mulberry is not a true berry either. It is a multiple fruit, like the pineapple, and is made up of the ovaries of several individual flowers.

  • Mulberry (Morus spp.; Moraceae) including:
    • Red Mulberry (Morus rubra)
    • White Mulberry (Morus alba)


Other true berries? edit

  • Açaí (Euterpe), a palm fruit native to the Amazon region
  • Barberry (Berberis; Berberidaceae)
  • Elderberry (Sambucus; Caprifoliaceae)
  • Hackberry (Celtis spp.; Cannabaceae)
  • Honeysuckle: the berries of some species (called honeyberries) are edible, others are poisonous (Lonicera spp.; Caprifoliaceae)
  • Mayapple (Podophyllum spp.; Berberidaceae)
  • Nannyberry or sheepberry (Viburnum spp.; Caprifoliaceae)
  • Oregon grape (Mahonia aquifolium; Berberidaceae)
  • Sea-buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides; Elaeagnaceae)
  • Sea Grape (Coccoloba uvifera; Polygonaceae)
  • Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum Solanaceae), a red juicy berry thought to be a vegetable as served in salads.
  • Wolfberry (Lycium barbarum, Lycium spp.; Solanaceae)

Heath family (Ericaceae) edit

Blueberries edit

Name Picture Distribution
Lowbush Blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium)
  • Wild blueberry
  Northeastern North America
Northern Highbush Blueberry (V. corymbosum)   row 2, cell 3
  • V. myrtilloides (Canadian Blueberry)
  • V. virgatum (Rabbiteye Blueberry; syn. V. ashei)
  • V. darrowii (Southern Highbush Blueberry)
  • V. elliottii (Elliott Blueberry)
  • V. pallidum (Hillside or Dryland Blueberry) native to the eastern U.S., and common in the Appalachians and the Piedmont of the Southeast.
  • V. arboreum (Sparkleberry), a common wild species on sandy soils in the southeastern U.S.

True cranberries edit

  • Vaccinium macrocarpon (American Cranberry)
  • Vaccinium microcarpum (Small Cranberry)
  • Vaccinium oxycoccus (Common Cranberry)
  • Vaccinium erythrocarpum

Other Vaccinium berries edit

Name Picture Distribution
Lingonberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea)
  • Canada: partridgeberry, redberry
  • Finnish: puolukka
  • Swedish: lingon
  distro


  • Vaccinium parvifolium: red huckleberry


  • Bilberry or whortleberry (Vaccinium spp.)
  • Huckleberry (Vaccinium spp.)
  • Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry)
  • Vaccinium ovalifolium (Alaska Blueberry; syn. V. alaskaense)
  • Vaccinium parvifolium (Red Huckleberry)
  • Vaccinium reticulatum (ohelo 'ai)
  • Vaccinium ovatum (California Huckleberry)
  • Vaccinium uliginosum (Northern (or Bog) Bilberry; syn. V. occidentale)
  • Black crowberry (Empetrum nigrum)

Aggregate fruits edit

For example, strawberries and raspberries are aggregate fruits, developed from multiple ovaries of a single flower.

Multiple fruits edit

  • mulberry?

Other accessory fruit edit

  • strawberry?

unknown edit

partridgeberry can be Mitchella repens or Gaultheria procumbens.


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Viburnum edit

Name Picture Distribution
American Cranberrybush (Viburnum opulus var. americanum, syn. V. triloba)
  • Central and Eastern Canada: highbush cranberry
  • French-Canadian: quatre-saisons des bois, viorne trilobée
  • Ojibway: niibimin, aniibmiin, aniibiminagaawashk
  • Variety of guelder rose
Picture row 2, cell 3
Nannyberry (V. lentago) pic east of the Rockies
Squashberry (V. edule)
  • Central and Eastern Canada: lowbush cranberry
  • Western Canada: highbush cranberry
  • Ojibway:min-nii, miin-mooz
row 2, cell 2 Native to boreal North America