edible berry on tree

 


Hi,
I saw a tree in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia with purplish red
berries
on it. The berries themselves looked quite a bit like blue
berries (except for
the colour). This was however a 25+ft tree. I bit
into one of the berries and it
was quite sweet, had a cluster of 10 or
so little seeds inside of it. Anyone
know what it might be?

The berries were in bunches of 10 or so and were about the size and
shape of
marbles.

for some reason I'm having trouble uploading a photo I took of it. Happy
to
email to anyone who is willing to have a look.

cheers




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P.somniferum

 

P.somniferum.677cbc6@gardenbanter.co.uk says...

Post it somewhere on the net... maybe sign up with Flickr and post a
link here.

This is a text newsgroup. No pictures allowed.

Your description suggests serviceberry though I don't know anything
about the number of seeds in the fruit.

http://www.vegtalk.org/fruits/serviceberry-amelanchier-t1636.html

 



I believe you nailed it. Serviceberry (aka juneberry, sarvisberry) is fairly
common, at least here in the SE USA. There are several species.
Steve

 


Steve Peek;889074 Wrote:

Yep, I think that's it. Thanks much.




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P.somniferum.6787486@gardenbanter.co.uk says...


A quick lookup suggests its available from UK nurseries.