Grazer's guide to BC
Wild things I ate on Vancouver Island
- raspberries
- blackberries
- huckleberries
- thimbleberries
- brambleberries
- saskatoonberries
- some kind of salty seaweed
Wild things I did not eat on Vancouver Island
- pipestem mushrooms
- mussels, clams and oysters under red tide
- that dead seal on the rocks at Dodd's Narrows
Labels: BC, berries, edible wild plants, Vancouver Island
posted by David Newland at 13.7.05
2 Comments:
There used to be these little berries that grew close to the ground on my grammie's lawn when I was a kid (in NS). My mum called them "tea berries" and sometimes I would be drafted to pick them into a cup so my grammie could make a pie (that's a lot of picking, by the way).
It wasn't until I was a lot older that I realized the "tea berries" were growing on spearmint plants.
To this day, I still don't know if the name "tea berries" is a widely-used name... ever heard of them?
Tea berries grow not on spearmint (which is a member of the mint family, and is tall and leafy with a square stem) but on wintergreen plants, which have small, dark green, waxy leaves in pairs and grow close to the ground in mixed deciduous-coniferous forests. I'm not making this up!
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