I was told by locals that thes e are the wild hucklebery bushes, Vaccinium ovatum. They only get a few feet tall and have a small berry on them.
I'm so bad with a camera, but t ried to take soem different pics of the bushes. Was kind a hard with them being short and so much leaf mulch around. I knwo it really hard to make out the berry pic which they are not quite ripe eyt and hard to get cuz the brids seems to always get them.
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Thanks for bringing this thread to my attention, Starlight. I would have missed it completely! And with my name in the title, how dreadful.
There are a few huckleberry species out there, and I need the most northerly one: G. baccata. I don't know that they look all that different, but there is a difference in cold hardiness. I lived in Oklahoma for a while just west of the Arkansas border, and they grew there in the woods (not baccata, but maybe ovatum). Though the plant looked very much like a big northern blueberry, the flowers were quite unique, and made it easy to tell them apart.
Well fudge... was hoping I might have had the right one. Don't rememebr what the bloom on thes e looks like. Will be next year before they bloom again. If ya don't find the other and wanna try a coupel of these, let me know, be glad to send ya some and see if they will survive for ya.
You never know . . . . . . . .
