Berries: A Picture Thread

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Help me feel better about its still being winter by posting pretty pictures of berries.

http://curiouslee.typepad.com/weblog/images/icy_berries.jpg

Also, discuss berries, cherries and other fruit.

― Funny Screen Name (kate), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 11:09 (twenty years ago)

Though, they don't have to be edible, just pretty.

http://www.princetonol.com/groups/woodfield/fallpics/berries.JPG

― Funny Screen Name (kate), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 11:12 (twenty years ago)

Edible berries I've never heard of!

http://www.fs.fed.us/npnht/life/berries.jpg

― Funny Screen Name (kate), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 11:13 (twenty years ago)

pretty

Hear that? Cancel the Bill Berry/Chuck Berry image search already, people.

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 11:14 (twenty years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/34/68294113_ca674dbb73.jpg

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 11:15 (twenty years ago)

White berries, though pretty, are generally inedible. Why is that? I remember reading something about colour charts of berries vs. their edibility.

http://www.sharingwood.org/images/Redosier.jpg

x-post, that is not a berry, it is a space alien! Excellent!

― Funny Screen Name (kate), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 11:16 (twenty years ago)

http://www.portlandbirdobs.btinternet.co.uk/bp_waxwing_2_300105_300v.jpg

Still hoping (somewhat deludedly) we might get waxwings in Sussex this year if the weather gets cold again. There's a nice bunch of berries out the back of our house if they do decide to drop by.

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 11:23 (twenty years ago)

Birds can eat berries that we can't, can't they?

This thread is awfully red, so I'm going for some blueberries now:

http://www.pickyourown.org/blueberry/blueberrybush.jpg

― Funny Screen Name (kate), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 11:25 (twenty years ago)

Birds can eat berries that we can't, can't they?

Yes they can - I have no idea why this is.

Funny thing about waxwings is that often they take berries quite late in the winter which are pretty well fermented, and it's not unheard of for them to fall out of the tree dead drunk.

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 11:26 (twenty years ago)

Those sound like smart birds to me!

― Funny Screen Name (kate), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 11:27 (twenty years ago)

It's fun till you get eaten by a cat, I'm told.

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 11:27 (twenty years ago)

Well, just get the cat stoned on catnip and they won't bother the drunk birds.

Anyway, here are a load of berries, ready for cream to be poured over and then eating!

http://www.fotosearch.com/comp/CRT/CRT315/15376-29FL.jpg

― Funny Screen Name (kate), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 11:29 (twenty years ago)

Strawberries need de-stalking first if you ask me. [/sourpuss]

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 11:31 (twenty years ago)

I like the stalks in, as it provides something useful to hold them by.

― Funny Screen Name (kate), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 11:32 (twenty years ago)

Spoons are underrated I think.

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 11:34 (twenty years ago)

But strawberries are made to be eaten with fingers so you can get juice all over you! It's half the fun.

Anyway, loganberries:

ihttp://www.goforgoachers.co.uk/logonberry.gif

― Funny Screen Name (kate), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 11:36 (twenty years ago)

And lingonberries!

http://www.sweden.se/upload/Sweden_se/english/articles/SI/images/Delikatess%20folkviseton/Lingon_RGB_72DPI.jpg

― Funny Screen Name (kate), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 11:38 (twenty years ago)

teeth for scale, I guess:

http://tytyga.com/berries/blackberry-new/images/58.jpg

― weather1ngda1eson (Brian), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 11:45 (twenty years ago)

Those are enourmous blackberries!

― Funny Screen Name (kate), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 11:49 (twenty years ago)

Blackberries and Raspberries can be hard to tell apart!

http://www.uga.edu/fruit/image/6.7%20left.JPG http://www.uga.edu/fruit/image/6.7%20right.jpg

― Funny Screen Name (kate), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 11:54 (twenty years ago)

I keep expecting a photo of Pam and/or Ava.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 12:02 (twenty years ago)

Lovely idea for a thread.
http://www.blackwater-valley.org.uk/Sloe_berries_3.jpg
The Sloe - ace with Gin.

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 12:02 (twenty years ago)

I'm going to try and grow a variety of these this year...
http://www.ars-grin.gov/cor/images/sfny/golden.queen.jpg

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 12:29 (twenty years ago)

Mmmmm, sloe gin. Are those yellow raspberries?

― Cuair Crithlonracha (kate), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 12:34 (twenty years ago)

http://www.saraleebakery.com.au/images/recipe/berry_pudding.jpg

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 12:36 (twenty years ago)

xpost

Well they prefer to be thought of as Golden but yes. Delicious as well. One of those things which don't taste how they look - if that makes sense.

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 12:37 (twenty years ago)

CJ, that has made me SOOOO hungry. Mmmmm.

I would imagine that yellow raspberries would taste sort of like kiwi fruit. I don't know why, though.

― Cuair Crithlonracha (kate), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 12:38 (twenty years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1890000/images/_1891703_halle_ap.jpg

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 12:44 (twenty years ago)

I keep expecting a photo of Pam and/or Ava.

Oh, twist my arm.

ihttp://static.flickr.com/36/74747750_59f6ce8c34.jpg

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 12:47 (twenty years ago)

(Blimey, I got a stack of error messages then. Serves me right. Back to fruit.)

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 12:48 (twenty years ago)

Yes, that is a beautiful baby indeed. However, not the sort of berries that I meant.

http://www.wildmanstevebrill.com/JPEG

(However, if you could get a picture of your adorable baby eating a handful of blackberries, than that would be the Berriest picture ever!)

― Cuair Crithlonracha (kate), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 12:50 (twenty years ago)

An edible white(-ish) Mulberry.
ihttp://www.fiery-foods.com/images/ed/mulberries/mulberry_white.jpg

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 12:52 (twenty years ago)

They just don't look very tasty. There's something... *wrong* about white berries. But this could be childhood prejudice from being told not to eat the Deadly Nightshade.

― Cuair Crithlonracha (kate), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 12:53 (twenty years ago)

You're right - they look kind of unformed or something!

Here's a bear eating berries (allegedly)
ihttp://www.nps.gov/akso/ParkWise/Students/PhotoGallery/DENA/wildlife/KennanWard/BearBerries.jpg

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 12:56 (twenty years ago)

Awwwwww, bearries!

― Cuair Crithlonracha (kate), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 12:57 (twenty years ago)

What about CHUCK?

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 14:48 (twenty years ago)

THIS THREAD SHALL NOT DIE!!!

http://johngomes.smugmug.com/photos/1320329-S.jpg

I WANT MORE BERRIES!!!

― Cuair Crithlonracha (kate), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 16:07 (twenty years ago)

yeah, white berries look like a handful of white litle spiders or something otherwordly, not good for eating that is.

― AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 16:26 (twenty years ago)

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 16:28 (twenty years ago)

Are tomatoes and melons berries? I thought they were just fruit.

And cucumber... who knows what that is.

― Cuair Crithlonracha (kate), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 16:29 (twenty years ago)

I've been educating myself at hungrymonster.com --

But what about this berry thing? How can a watermelon be a berry?

Here's how. A berry is " a simple fleshy fruit that usually has many seeds". Now there are three kinds of "true berries": (1) Smooth-skinned berries with entirely edible pericarps, such as blueberries, currants, gooseberries, cranberries, grapes, tomatoes, and dates. (2) Round, leathery rinded berries, such as oranges, lemons, limes, and grapefruits; they are the citrus fruits, referred to as hesperidia. (3) Elongated, many-seeded berries with a tough rind such as bananas, cucumbers, watermelons, and other members of the gourd family; they are referred to botanically as pepos.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 16:32 (twenty years ago)

But... but... what about compound berries like strawberries and blackberries and raspberries and boysenberries and loganberries?

Also, isn't that definition above for fruit, which is not synonymous with berry? Ooh, I wish my botanist granny were still alive to sort this out.

― Cuair Crithlonracha (kate), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 16:37 (twenty years ago)

bananas are a type of berry? za-huh?

anyway, currants!

http://www.goodnessdirect.co.uk/detail/152644b.jpg

― joseph (joseph), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 16:39 (twenty years ago)

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e126/crawuncle/berry.jpg

― Okeigh, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:24 (twenty years ago)

Nice berry I've never seen before...

http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/LCP/LCP63.JPG

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:11 (twenty years ago)

Farkleberries...
http://www.npsot.org/Tyler/Newsletter/Jan2005Newsletter_files/image007.jpg

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:17 (twenty years ago)

A many seeded berry ...
http://waynesword.palomar.edu/images/pomeg3.jpg

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:18 (twenty years ago)

Super berries...
http://www.ontariowildflower.com/images/commonjuniper_berry.jpg

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:19 (twenty years ago)

Mmmm, juniper berries. Poisonous until distilled into lovely gin.

― All Is Wub (kate), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:20 (twenty years ago)

One more...sea buckthorn berries...
http://www.uoguelph.ca/research/news/articles/2005/photos/sea_buckthorn.jpg

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:21 (twenty years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/40/78575543_483c71cd1c.jpg

― Mike W (caek), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:21 (twenty years ago)

http://www.codehappy.net/mimage/wonka024.jpg

The snozzberries taste like snozzberries!

― Abbott (Abbott), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:40 (twenty years ago)

http://freefriends.org/~mare/huck.jpg
Huckleberries!

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:46 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.voyages.ru/suomi/pictures/cowberries.jpg
Cowberries!

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:50 (twenty years ago)

This thread is great. I never knew there were so many kinds of berries in the world!

― All Is Wub (kate), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Darn Ruski websites...won't let you link direct to their berries...here's some more...
http://www.shpilenok.com/reserves/olekminsky/images/FL_P_015.jpg

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:52 (twenty years ago)

Tibetan Goji Berries! Very good for supposedly...
http://www.bumperfound.org/Art/berryL.jpg

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:55 (twenty years ago)

Thimble berries grow wild around the Pacific NW. The red one is the ripe one. They are delicious.

http://www.mountainvisions.com/media/thimbleberry.jpg

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:56 (twenty years ago)

Salmon berries, another wild berry around these parts. Not as tasty as thimble berries, I am sorry to say, but a nice salmony-orange color.

http://www.swakcc.org/gallery/other/SALMONBERRIES.jpg

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 3 March 2006 19:00 (twenty years ago)

Is that their colour when ripe? Wow, that is pretty amazing.

― All Is Wub (kate), Friday, 3 March 2006 19:01 (twenty years ago)

Salal berries. YAPNWB - Yet another Pacific NW berry. A staple food for Native Americans - and bears.

http://www.slugsandsalal.com/pix/salalberries.jpg

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 3 March 2006 19:03 (twenty years ago)

Are currants berries?
http://www.hort.cornell.edu/extension/commercial/fruit/mfruit/images/white%20currant.jpg

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Friday, 3 March 2006 22:40 (twenty years ago)

Wild Strawberries...
http://www.moviemail-online.co.uk/images/small/wild_strawberries2_rgb.jpg

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Friday, 3 March 2006 22:43 (twenty years ago)

Sorry...couldn't resist...wild strawberries...
ihttp://cgfa.sunsite.dk/l/lacroix1.jpg

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Friday, 3 March 2006 22:44 (twenty years ago)

Well, I hope this one works - Wild Strawberries!!!
http://images.easyart.com/i/prints/rw/lg/1/8/Jean-Baptiste-Chardin-Wild-Strawberries-180481.jpg

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Friday, 3 March 2006 22:46 (twenty years ago)

You mom have berries for nips!

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Saturday, 4 March 2006 09:33 (twenty years ago)

I had to http://c.myspace.com/Groups/00007/61/66/7036616_l.jpg

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Saturday, 4 March 2006 19:51 (twenty years ago)

But... but... what about compound berries like strawberries and blackberries and raspberries and boysenberries and loganberries?

Also, isn't that definition above for fruit, which is not synonymous with berry? Ooh, I wish my botanist granny were still alive to sort this out.

That's what your botanist former drummer is here for. None of those are
berries, technically. Strawberries are an
accessory fruit, as the fruits are actually achenes (the seeds embedded on the surface, akin to sunflower seeds) and the fleshy part grows from the receptacle. Raspberries are
drupelets, and juniper berries are modified cones. Fruit is anything that derives from the ovary, whether fleshy or dry.

However, these are all scientific definitions which have little bearing on what people generally understand to be berries -- namely, small, sweet fruit. I'm to make a blueberry/strawberry smoothie in this thread's honour.

― Oblivious Lad. (Oblivious Lad), Saturday, 4 March 2006 20:51 (twenty years ago)

Apologies for my ugly, imcompetent coding. I'm just glad I didn't attempt to post a picture.

― Oblivious Lad. (Oblivious Lad), Saturday, 4 March 2006 20:54 (twenty years ago)

Damn, I missed the end of this thread, and LL MH's explanation of berries.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:13 (twenty years ago)

Bring it back - it's still bloody winter here...1 degree C. Ice on my drive this morning...the car batteries dying on me...I want spring...

Here's a moment of berry zen, then...
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/johnston/homehort2/beautyberryberries

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Friday, 17 March 2006 13:01 (twenty years ago)

I'm still intensely disappointed by the idea that strawberries are not berries, botanically, but grapes are. :-(

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 13:02 (twenty years ago)

I wouldn't worry, it's the taste that counts...strawberries rule grapes. Here's some berries that look like a bunch of grapes though...

http://a248.e.akamai.net/f/248/5462/2h/ecolage.safeshopper.com/images/by0ri4v9.jpg

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Friday, 17 March 2006 13:03 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

Revive - because I've just eaten some delicious English strawberries in May!

― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 20:29 (eighteen years ago)

Since this thread was posted berries have been the hot marketing foodstuff of the year. It was the power of ilx.

― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

My parents' blueberry bushes are loaded. I can't wait.

― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.freakingnews.com/pictures/9500/Dingle-berries--9849.jpg

― PappaWheelie V, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 22:57 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

Using the Visual Search Lab as discussed here...
This is the most awesome thing ever
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3293/2881958148_fd2d128c32.jpg

― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 09:03 (seventeen years ago)

I have no memory of starting this thread. I thought it was Aussie Kate until I clicked on it!

mmmm, berries. I've been obsessed with Rowan berries lately. They are the bestest orange in the world.

― in case of Masonic Attack (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 09:51 (seventeen years ago)

It being autumn, I have become obsessed with the colour orange.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/88/220378089_9fdb7473cc.jpg

― in case of Masonic Attack (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 09:52 (seventeen years ago)

Cloud berries

http://www.lakka.net/trim_ur_lakka3.jpg

― Drinking Island is inside every one of us (Ed), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 09:53 (seventeen years ago)

I do not believe in cloudberries!

(even though every time I go to Northampton K & M forcefeed me cloudberry jam, mmm, made from Norwegian pixieboys)

― in case of Masonic Attack (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 09:55 (seventeen years ago)

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