© 2011 Joshua Stark
I've been up in the Sierra Nevada range during any free time I get lately, and I've found something new each time. A quick update, I've made a mountain berry pie (thanks for the name, Mom!), and found chinquapins (a nut, not a Spanish curse word), snowberries, huckleberries, and chokecherries. I've also found still-ripe gooseberries alongside the first snow and a flowering columbine! California microclimates are amazing.
2 comments:
Choke cherries?
I shuddder to think how they came by their name. Not something I'd feed to the kids (ex wife maybe).
What are they?
They do sound ominous, but they are just a cherry (Prunus virginianus) - slightly bland, sweet, and small. They make good pie and jam filling, with other ingredients (I made a three-berry pie along with elderberries and currants).
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