Thread: Брусника!

Originally Posted by Hanna

The bilberry bushes have lighter leaves and blue/lavender berries and the

Do they look like this?
голубика - Google Search

If they do then it's "голубика" but "голубика" doesn't grow in North America

Originally Posted by Hanna

and the "real" blueberries are almost black and the bushes are a bit smaller with darker leaves. I have noticed that, but I thought it had to do with how much light they got or something like that.

This sounds like "черника" to me


You might have seen these berries in Sweden too
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Костяника
Морошка — Википедия (can be called couldberry)

Unfortuantely they don't grow in Eastern US either, I miss them But Ikea treats me with cloudberry jam - yum, yum

Originally Posted by Doomer

Do they look like this?
голубика - Google Search

No.. those berries are more oval and the rushes are like bushes.... The ones I mean grow in the forest and the plants get no higher than a few decimeters.

Like this: If you look closely you can see that there are blueberry (or is it bilberry...) plants everywhere on the ground.



Gosh, you know this is an area of the English language which I am really not familiar with.
I have no idea what I am talking about, lol!!!

If they do then it's "голубика" but "голубика" doesn't grow in North America

This sounds like "черника" to me

You might have seen these berries in Sweden too
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Костяника
Морошка — Википедия (can be called couldberry)

Морошка - Yes, they are really common in Sweden, but they don't grow anywhere near Stockholm so I have personally never picked them. But I like the taste! My aunt picks a lot of them every year and makes jam with them.
I didn't even know what they were called in English!

Костяника looked like redcurrants (in latin, Ribes rubrum) to me. Otherwise I don't know what it is! We had red currants in our garden when I was a kid. Very boring to pick them...

There must be endless quantities of these berries growing in Russia!! Perhaps a good business opportunity for poor people. I assume they can pick wherever they like?

In Sweden there is a problem finding people who are willing to pick them for industry (meaning pick berries in the forest as a full time job during the season). In the past, Polish people were willing to do it, but now, they have to bring in people from Asia!!

Originally Posted by Hanna

No.. those berries are more oval and the rushes are like bushes.... The ones I mean grow in the forest and the plants get no higher than a few decimeters.

Like this: If you look closely you can see that there are blueberry (or is it bilberry...) plants everywhere on the ground.

it is "черника" plants on the picture. At least from personal experience I would say so

Originally Posted by Hanna

Костяника looked like redcurrants (in latin, Ribes rubrum) to me. Otherwise I don't know what it is! We had red currants in our garden when I was a kid. Very boring to pick them...

no, it is not currant, completely different berry. And it only grows in the wild - in latin Rúbus saxátilis. In Finnish I guess it is called "Lillukka" or "Stenbär" in Swedish

Originally Posted by Hanna

There must be endless quantities of these berries growing in Russia!! Perhaps a good business opportunity for poor people. I assume they can pick wherever they like?

Pretty much

BTW this is how NA blueberry plant looks
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...mn_foliage.JPG

Originally Posted by Hanna

There must be endless quantities of these berries growing in Russia!!! Perhaps a good business opportunity for poor people. I assume they can pick wherever they like?

Yes, you can pick berries and mushrooms in a forest without any restrictions. I remember when I went fishing in the late 90s to Oka river in the rural area in Vladimir region about 400 km from Moscow I was approached by an old lady who suggested to bick a 10 liter BUCKET (!!!) of blueberries for me for only $2 (!!!). She did that but I was too embaressed to pay such insignificant money and gave her $10 (I haven't much money myself back then). She was very grateful and said "thank you" endless times. I went to the same area last year and the price among locals to pick a bucket of blueberries was about $100 because many rich Muscovites built dachas there (the nature there is very beautiful) and locals who hadn't any work 10 years ago because kolkhoz there they used to work in Soviet times was completly ruined during the times of "freedom and democracy", work now building those houses, many opened their own buisnesses providing various services to those dachniks and earning quite decent money. Also pensions of the old people became significantly higher for the last 10 years and they are able to live on them now instead of begging how it was 10 years ago.

Another berry that we have in Russia is black crowberry - ворон́ика. People usually don't pick it up but here's a photo I took when it was in blossom. Pretty nice, isn't?