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The plants have rather bitter-tasting berries. The fruit are often eaten by bears, which by legend, prefer the berries to maintain fat stores during hibernation. [6] Buffaloberries are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species, including Ectropis crepuscularia (recorded from S. canadensis) and Coleophora elaeagnisella.
The berries and leaves contain methyl salicylate, a compound that is closely related to aspirin. [12] Teaberry extract can be used to flavor tea, candy, medicine and chewing gum. [13] Teaberry is also a regional flavor of ice cream in Pennsylvania. [14] [15] [16] It likewise inspired the name of Clark's Teaberry chewing gum.
The berries ripen in September through October and are a favorite among wild bird species including cardinals, mockingbirds, finches, woodpeckers and more. Beautyberry is commonly planted in landscape designs to attract wildlife because of the food source the berries provide and the cover animals get from the shrub itself. [ 4 ]
Wildberries (Russian: Вайлдберриз, Vayldberriz) is the largest Russian online retailer.It was founded in 2004 by Tatyana Kim. [3]Besides Russia, Wildberries serves: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan.
Salal berries are a widely used fruit on the British Columbia coast. Salal berries were traditionally picked in late summer and eaten fresh or dried into cakes for winter. There are numerous wild edible and medicinal plants in British Columbia that are used traditionally by First Nations peoples. These include seaweeds, rhizomes and shoots of ...
Rubus chamaemorus is a species of flowering plant in the rose family.Its English common names include cloudberry, [2] Nordic berry, bakeapple (in Newfoundland and Labrador), knotberry and knoutberry (in England), aqpik or low-bush salmonberry (in Alaska – not to be confused with salmonberry, Rubus spectabilis), [3] and averin or evron (in Scotland).
Physalis peruviana is a species of plant in the nightshade family native to Chile and Peru. [2] Within that region, it is called aguaymanto, uvilla or uchuva, in addition to numerous indigenous and regional names.
Amelanchier (/ æ m ə ˈ l æ n ʃ ɪər / am-ə-LAN-sheer), [1] also known as shadbush, shadwood or shadblow, serviceberry or sarvisberry (or just sarvis), juneberry, saskatoon, sugarplum, wild-plum [2] or chuckley pear, [3] is a genus of about 20 species of deciduous-leaved shrubs and small trees in the rose family ().