How do you spell tasty summertime treat? B E R R Y!
Juicy, sweet berries are highly perishable and are often a luxury item at the grocery store. Grow berries in your home garden instead, for a delicious summer treat that’s packed with vitamins, fiber, and cancer-fighting antioxidants. There is nothing better than fresh berries in the summer and they have so many varied flavors from a berry with a sweet flavor to berries with a tangy taste.
There are so many different species of berries, so do your research before eating any berry you are not familiar with, as some are toxic.
Which Fruits Are Berries?
When classifying fruits into the berry family, the distinctions can be blurred.
You might have questions. Are bananas berries? Surely a strawberry is a berry?
If we look at the botanical definition, a berry is:
“A fleshy fruit without a stone (pit) produced from a single flower containing one ovary.” – Source: Wikipedia
So, technically speaking, grapes, eggplants, and even bananas are classed as berry fruits. While what you normally consider berries, like strawberries and raspberries do not fit the definition.
This is because they develop from a single flower with more than one ovary. And this makes them an aggregate fruit.
But generally, most of us consider a berry to be any small, bright-colored, edible fruit without a stone or pit.
Thinking of growing berries in your garden? Check out the helpful tips in the video below.
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The list is long and it doesn’t end with strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries.
Berries are known for their health benefits. Many of them are considered superfoods. They’re packed with antioxidants that help boost the immune system and even prevent cancer.
Buckle up! Here’s our list of types of berries.
Acai Berry
Acai berries have been lauded as a superfood high in fatty acids and antioxidants. The dark purple fruit grows in clusters in palm trees native to the Amazon jungle of South America.
They are inedible in their whole form, so people usually consume them in the form of powder. The fact that they’re difficult to source outside the native region adds to steep prices.
Agarita berry
Native to Texas. Edible and used to make jelly. Attracts birds and mammals. Also known as agarito, algerita, agritos, currant-of-Texas, wild currant, chaparral berry.
Agarita berries are difficult to harvest because of their thorny, five-pronged leaves. They’re toothsome in tarts, cobblers, and juices.
Amla
Also known as Amalika or Indian Gooseberry. Those sour tasting and fibrous berries are native to India. They grow on small to medium-sized trees and have many health benefits.
Amla is used in Ayurvedic medicine in powder form as well as in fresh form and as dried berries. It’s rich in Vitamin C, flavonoids and ellagic acid known for its anti-infective properties.
Baneberry
Baneberries are small, hard red or white berries. You can find them in subtropical and temperate regions of North America.
Cardiogenic toxins the berries contain can cause cardiac arrest and death.
Barbados Cherry
The Barbados cherry is a small shrub that grows in the Caribbean and parts of Central and South America. It is not at all cold hardy, suffering damage when temperatures dip below 30 degrees F.
The fruits are bright red, cherry-like, very juicy, and have a sweet-and-sour taste.
Barberry
Barberry shrubs are good as landscape plants. Birds love the small, red fruits. They’re too sour to enjoy fresh but are palatable when cooked with sugar.
With over 400 different species, the berries come in a range of colors (black, purple, white, and yellow). Also, the tart taste will be more or prominent in some varieties than others.
Barberries are often used as dried berries.
Bearberry
Found in arctic and subarctic zones around the world, the bearberry produces red berries enjoyed by bears and humans alike. Native people gather the leaves of bearberry plants and use them as folk medicine.
The purported health benefits of bearberries are manifold. They provide relief from rheumatoid arthritis, gout, back pain, headaches, and kidney stones.
They can be grown throughout the US.
Bilberry
Similar to blueberries, these flavorful berries grow wild throughout northern Europe. They are highly perishable and don’t transport well, but can be purchased in powder form. Europeans pick the wild berries for fresh eating, jams, and baked goods.
Bilberry is an old cultivated form of blueberry. It produces poor yields when grown so it’s most often harvested in the wild.
Bittersweet
These bright orange berries grow on long trailing vines throughout New England. The berries aren’t edible, they’re toxic and very bitter, hence their name.
These types of berries are native to Europe and Asia but have been naturalized in North America. They’ve become a common and persistent garden weed.
Blackberry
Blackberries grow wild throughout the Pacific Northwest and the South. These plants prefer moist, fertile soil and mild winters.
Studies have found that blackberries protect against LDL-oxidation, a prominent cardiovascular risk factor.
They abound in polyphenol compounds that lower stress levels and high blood pressure.
New varieties of blackberries are more cold hardy. Yet if you live north of USDA plant hardiness zone 6 you’ll have a better shot with raspberries.
Use the USDA’s interactive map to determine the hardiness zone for your area.
Blueberry
Sweet, juicy blueberries are used for fresh eating, or in sauces and baked goods. Unfortunately, blueberries require acidic soil with a pH between 4.5 and 5.5. If you have alkaline soil, you will need to amend it or grow your blueberries in containers.
The blueberries are types of berries with the highest antioxidant content. Like blackberries, blueberries are also found to protect against LDL oxidation.
You may confuse saskatoon berries with blueberries, as they look similar. One way to tell one from the other is to know that saskatoon berries are softer and more reddish in color.
Black Mulberry
The black mulberry grows only in warm climates, south of zone 7, but is a favorite fruit among Southern cooks. In a myth of Pyramus and Thisbē, Gods taint the berries red after the lovers’ murder under the mulberry tree.
Substitute them for blackberries in pies and jams.
Boysenberry
Boysenberries are developed in the 1920s by crossing raspberries, blackberries, and loganberries. Walter Knott grew the berries at his farm and his wife made the sweet fruit into preserves. Knott’s Berry Farm became famous and the rest is history.
Like blackberries, boysenberries prefer sandy loam soil and plenty of sunshine.
Buffalo Berry
Buffalo berry grows wild throughout the Great Plains region. The plant produces large, red fruit suitable for eating dried or in baked goods. If one eats them raw, however, they can cause diarrhea.
The berries grow lush bushes and are resilient plants that can thrive in marginal soils.
Bunchberry
Bunchberry trees produce red clusters of fruit in northern regions of North America. These fruits are bland tasting and better left for the birds.
The berry contains high levels of mucilage which made it a perfect natural jam thickener.
Caperberry
Caperberry is a perennial plant with fleshy leaves and white to pinkish flowers. The caper is the flower bud, and the caperberry is the fruit.
The berries were used in ancient times for medical purposes as well as an aphrodisiac.
Chokeberry (Aronia)
Chokeberry shrubs are often used as landscape plants because they do well in the shade. The fruit is acerbic but makes good wine and preserves.
It’s a wild edible berry known for many of its health benefits. Aronia helps lower blood pressure, boost the immune system, and improves iron metabolism. Learn more.
Chokecherry
The chokecherry grows wild throughout many parts of the west but can be homegrown as well. Use this tart fruit in jams and syrups.
Cloudberry
This tree or shrub grows throughout the coldest regions of North America and can thrive in harsh conditions of the Arctic Circle. It produces yellow, bland fruit.
Cloudberries can be found in Canada and some parts of Maine. Yet, these types of berries are a staple for Scandinavian foragers.
Cowberry
Cowberries grow wild throughout northern Europe and Canada. They produce tart red fruit, like cranberries, and are used in baked goods and preserves.
Cranberry
Cooks appreciate cranberries for their tart, astringent flavor. This is both inside and outside the Thanksgiving occasion. They are wetland fruits that prefer acidic soil, and a long growing season.
One of the most common uses of cranberry is in the form of cranberry juice. The juice helps reduce plaque build-up in your arteries and helps with weight loss.
Currant
Currants thrive in regions with cool, moist conditions. The small, round fruits may be translucent white, red, or purple and have a rich, tart flavor.
Plant your currants at least three feet apart and maintain them with regular pruning. Read more on how to grow currents.
Dewberry
Black wild berries that grow on long, creeping vines. These plants grow prolifically throughout the Pacific Northwest.
They have a slightly bitter taste. Eat them fresh or use them in jams and baked goods.
Elderberry
Similar to currants, elderberries are dark red to purple and make fine wine and preserves. Grow this plant in cool, moist regions with cold winters. Many health benefits are attributed to elderberries, but they’re most popular as an ingredient in immune-boosting tonics.
They ripen in early to mid-September in the northeast. The West Coasters however can harvest them as early as June.
Farkleberry
A relative of blueberries, farkleberry grows wild throughout the Midwest. The black berries are relatively tasteless, although birds and wildlife enjoy them.
Himalayan Blackberry
Similar to common blackberry, but the fruit is larger and sweeter. It grows across many different wild habitats but is also cultivated in the gardens.
The berry is also used to produce the hybrid marionberry cultivar.
Goji Berry
Bright red goji berries are native to China and the Himalayas. They have been heralded as a superfood, high in antioxidants. They’re rich in phenolic compounds which protect against oxidative stress.
Goji berries contain nutrients important for eye health, like vitamin A and zeaxanthin. They helped prevent eye health deterioration in a group of 150 elderly people.
Fresh goji berries are hard to come by since they’re rarely commercially cultivated in the U.S. So, home growing is a good alternative to have your own fresh goji berries.
Goji berry can tolerate drought, extreme heat and cold, and poor soils.
Gooseberry
This thorny plant produces tart, green berries used in pies and preserves. Gooseberries thrive in cool areas and prefer rich, moist soils. That said, they’re often found along the paths of woodland hiking trails.
Gooseberries have acidic taste when green but develop a rich, smooth flavor as they ripen. They resemble currents but people often prefer gooseberries in pies or jams.
Grape
Grapes are botanically classified as berries. Table grapes are used fresh and may be red, green, or black. Small, seeded types have an aromatic flavor and are used for juices and wines.
Hackberry
Hackberry comes from many types of trees of the Celtis genus. The hackberry tree can grow up to 80 – 100 feet in height. It has purple skin with a tiny nut inside and is an edible berry.
Their sweet taste makes them the bird’s staple but the locals often use the pit to roast them like chestnuts.
Holly Berry
Bright, red berries that grow on evergreen holly shrubs. Although they make for a perfect Christmas decoration, the holly berries are toxic to eat.
As little as two to five berries is enough to cause a deadly outcome.
Huckleberry
Huckleberries grow wild throughout the Pacific Northwest. They thrive in the cool, moist conditions found in woodland settings. They are similar to blueberries and are delicious fresh, or in jams and baked goods.
Indian Plum
This shrub is native to the Pacific Northwest, west of the Cascade Mountains. Native Americans consumed the Indian Plum in dried and cooked form. They also used it for treating tuberculosis.
Ivy Berry
Grown as ornamentals, the plant grows small purple to black berries. It can climb up to 98 feet high on vertical surfaces. Birds often feed on the berries, but the plant is poisonous for humans.
Juneberry
This plant tolerates harsh conditions, growing wild throughout much of North America. It is used as a landscaping plant, although the fruit is good to eat, somewhat similar to blueberries.
Juniper Berry
Junipers produce dusty blue berries that resemble blueberries. The fruit isn’t toxic but is rarely palatable.
This bush plant belongs to the cypress family of Cupressaceae. The indigenous people used the berries as a traditional medicine for diabetes. They used burning juniper as part of their folkloric rites. Juniper berries are also used for making Gin.
Lingonberry
Also known as cowberry.
Loganberry
This cross between a raspberry and a blackberry has a distinct taste. It’s used commercially in jams and juices. Grow loganberry as you would blackberries.
Mistletoe Berry
The parasitic mistletoe plant produces small, glutinous, white berries in winter. Stems, leaves, and berries are all toxic when ingested.
Celtic Druids considered mistletoe a symbolic plant because of its hardiness during the winter months. Fast forward to the 18th century, the herb was introduced into Christmas celebrations. That’s when the tradition of kissing under the mistletoe originated as well.
Nannyberry
This plant grows wild in northern woodlands and marshes. The berry resembles chokecherries in appearance and taste. Use it in syrups and preserves.
Oregon Grape
Oregon grapes grow well in a variety of soils and are used primarily as a landscaping shrub.
The small, purple fruits are tart, but are eaten fresh or made into wine or preserves. Oregon grape root is used to treat diarrhea, constipation, and gallbladder disease.
Persimmon
Like tomatoes, persimmon is botanically classified as a berry. It’s native to the Middle East and Asia, but can be successfully grown in the Southern United States. It has a tart taste and slightly mealy texture.
Pokeberry
The fruit of this plant resembles blueberries but don’t be fooled. All parts of the plant are toxic. The berries lack the star at the base of the fruit found on blueberries and have a glossy purple-red sheen.
Privet Berry
Small purple or black berries that grow on evergreen or semi-evergreen flowering shrubs or hedges. Privet berries are sold in a farmer’s market and are used for space decoration and wedding bouquets. They’re toxic when ingested.
Privet is used as food for birds and also by some larvae species such as Lepidoptera. These larvae are used for weed control because of their propensity to feed on one single crop.
Raspberry
Raspberries are cold-hardy and long-lived. They produce sweet, flavorful fruit suitable for fresh eating, sauces, and preserves. Plant raspberries in fertile soil and provide at least one inch of water weekly. Prune them once a year and protect them from rabbit damage.
There are three main types, namely, purple, black and red raspberries.
Black raspberries are native to western North America. They grow as north as Alaska to as south as California. Black raspberries have a hollow center, just like the thimble-like fruits of red raspberries.
They have high concentrations of Vitamin C that helps ward off inflammation.
Learn more about how to grow raspberries in your home garden.
Red Mulberry
Red mulberry trees are native to many parts of the United States. They produce fruit similar to blackberries. The fruit is highly perishable and leaves a mess on sidewalks and hard surfaces.
Salmonberry
Salmonberry is a perennial plant native to Alaska and Canada. The orange or red fruit resemble raspberries and are eaten fresh or in preserves.
Salmonberries are rich in polyphenols. This makes them effective against indigestion, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases.
Seaberry (Sea Buckhorn)
Seaberry grows in the temperate and sub-arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere. It was naturalized in Canada in the 1930s. It’s an edible berry known as a superfruit because it is high in nutrients.
Snowberry
Snowberry is present all across the northern United States and the Canadian provinces. They’re often considered poisonous, but they’re not very digestible for people.
Also known as Waxberry, White Coralberry, or White, Thin-leaved, or Few-flowered Snowberry. They’re used medicinally for treating burns and sores, and as a shampoo and deodorant.
Strawberry
Homegrown strawberries have little in common with those found in grocery stores. They’re often smaller but have an intense flavor that makes you stand up and take notice. Grow strawberries in fertile, moist soil and full sun.
Strawberries are top-ranked for its antioxidant content. The berries have potent cancer-fighting properties and protect against heart disease.
If you opt to grow strawberries, start small. Strawberry runners tend to branch out on their own and begin new plants. It’s a budget-friendly way to get a full-scale strawberries patch.
Sugarberry
Sugarberry trees grow throughout the Southern United States and produce yellow or orange fruits loved by birds and insects.
Tayberry
This hybrid cross between a loganberry and a black raspberry produces sweet, red fruit. It grows in moist, fertile soil and is more frost hardy than blackberries.
Thimbleberry
A wild cousin of cultivated raspberries, thimbleberries grow from Alaska to northern Mexico. Use them fresh or in jams. They are softer and more perishable than raspberries and rarely sold commercially.
White Mulberry
White mulberry trees were brought from China to the U.S in the 1800s to establish a silk industry here. The caterpillars feed off the leaves of these trees. The fruit is bland and unpalatable to humans.
Wineberry
This wild raspberry grows throughout New England and is considered an invasive plant. The fruits are soft and tart.
They resemble raspberries in taste but are more juicy and acidic. They can be mistaken for red and black raspberries, ball of these are edible.
Wintergreen
This plant grows on creeping vines throughout Canada and the northern United States. The berries have an acerbic taste that improves with freezing.
Yew berry
Yew berries are red berries found on evergreen shrubs. The cones are light red and open at the end. They’re grown as ornamentals and love mountainous cool regions. All parts of the plant are toxic, while consuming leaves can be lethal.
Youngberry
Byrnes M. Young introduced this hybrid cross between a dewberry and a blackberry in 1905. It is frequently grown in New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa.
How to Grow Berries at Home?
What’s quintessential when growing berries is that they need plenty of sun to propagate. All types of berries have that in common. Only raspberries can survive in partial shade (yet they’ll be scarce).
If you want your own berry patch, prepare for a few years’ worth of garden bed preparation.
A healthy and worthwhile berry patch requires fertilization with:
- Compost,
- Manure, or
- Mulch
Berries are intolerant of any weeds or undesirables, so it’s good to fertilize your beds once or twice a year. These natural agents will have strong effects on the long term health of berries.
Also be sure to keep your berry patches:
- Away from wild berry varieties (to prevent disease and cross-contamination)
- A safe distance from other plant patches in your garden (so they can grow undisturbed)
If you’re growing different berry varieties, make sure to remove any dead canes or runners. Take extra care with strawberries since they can spread out of control and endanger other crops.
Frankie Flowers, a gardening expert, shares insider tips on how to grow different types of berries, from raspberries and blackberries to white strawberries.
The world of berries extends far beyond the few commonly grown or found in grocery stores. Many berries that grow wild are safe to eat. Yet be sure to consult a field guide to accurately identify any berry before you consume it. Berries resembling blackberries and raspberries are often safe, as are wild strawberries.
Did we miss any berries? Leave a comment!
hi i have some weed like plants growing in my yard. they are thin and have small leaves. they have small green and black or dark purple berries all over them i was wondering if you could tell me what they are? thank you
You forgot the oosberry
doesn’t exist, it’s goosberry 🙂
Yes it does exist….and it’s Gooseberry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gooseberry
wow you guys are mean
bananas are berries also seach on google “are bananas berries”
Don’t forget about the avacados
Gardening Channel, you forgot about Sumac berries (lemonade) and pineapple. Pineapple is a true berry, as the raspberry, strawberry, and soooooo many others. Each of the little “diamond” shapes is an individual fruit.
BTW, Avocado is not technically a berry: it is a “drupe”, a fruit bearing a single, large, centrally-positioned seed
Avocados are botanically berries, just a single seeded berry. I’m confused by your comment. Strawberries and Raspberries aren’t berries bc berries are simple fruits.
they forgot the marionberry
Aggregate berries.
Cherries are not because they have 1 seed same with plums, so avocados aren’t
so are watermelons 😀
bananas are actually a distant relative of a herb
dont forget the
W A T E R M E L O N
and the aubergine!!!!!!!!
Chilean guava has delicious berries that smell like candy floss and are edible and similar in flavour to a blueberry.
thats edible
Strawberry and raspberry aren’t actually a berry. Did you know that?
I have a plant where the leaves are as dark purple as the berries and I have no idea what is is. It was given to me and thar person didn’t know what it is. The dark purple berries have now turned red. Can anyone help identify it? I don’t think it is edible.
I would really need a photo to try to identify it. Could you post the photo on here or imgur and leave a link to the photo there?
from your description ,I would say they are Elderberries. Dark juicy, and excellent for wine and liquers. In the spring bunches of creamy white flowers appear. these blossoms make amazing Elderflower Champagne.
There are 2 types of elderberry. One grows the berries in clusters like grapes. These are poisonous. The other grows a head of berries like a cauliflower. These are good to eat.
You forgot salad berries
Not that it takes away from this wonderful list, which it truely is. I have been led to believe that some of these aren’t berries. Strawberries being one standing out.
You’re right, by botanical definition strawberries aren’t berries, and neither are a lot of the other “berries” listed here, including raspberries, blackberries, mulberries, plums and cherries. They are, however, often called “berries” in everyday English.
At first I thought that this article was just listing the “berries” that are considered berries in everyday English, but then I noticed it had also listed grapes because they “are botanically classified as berries”. However, pumpkins, bananas and avocados are also botanically classified as berries, and aren’t on the list. This article seriously needs redoing, because the author obviously had no idea what they were doing.
Oosberry in my little mouth
Who cares. Just eat them.
Then you’ll have a small chance of dying sooo ya. Don’t if ya don’t wanna die
and watermelon :0
You mention that like tomatoes, persimmons are berries… why didn’t tomatoes make the berry list? Is it safe to assume that persimmons are not berries?
Hi,
I just bought a fruit kind, the shopkeeper said its vall (wall) berry fruit. It looks like pear fruit, small in size. what is it? Is it edible?
And, along with these descriptions, it would be much better if you add the related images to it, so that we can identify the fruit and its uses as described here.
please try and let us know and you too will…….. goodday
I have a small tree out back with tiny purple berries on them. I live in Alabama. Could you tell me what kind of tree this is and are the berries toxic?
They are black mulberries and they are not toxic.
Hi i found your awesome list and was wondering if you could help me identify these berries. a quick search on google images found that they are common but farthest i could go was “wild berry”
heres a link to a picture of them:
http://i962.photobucket.com/albums/ae107/wwwsam/31102011029_1.jpg
any help is appreciated
thanks heaps =]
Your berry looks like a wild strawberry to me. In South Africa it is used as a ground cover.
That is False Strawberry. Its edible, but taste like nothing and is very chalky.
hi,
we have a white mulberry tree and they are very palatable for humans, majority of the ripe fruit are very sweet.
Hi, I was wondering if you could tell me what kind of berry grows only in New England. It is said, it doesn’t grow anywhere else in the world.
The berry looks like a blueberry and is supposed to be very good for ones health.
HI!
Your list is great. Just wanted to mention to you that I live in VA and we have TONS and GOBS of wineberries in the summer. They have invaded farther south than New England.
Melanie
I didnt know there were so many berries. Think these are only the ones we’ve discovered.
It was a berry Dr. Zo talked about on his show one day last week that make you look and feel younger. I thought it started with a z something berry. I looked up all berries from a -z and its not coming up. Do you have an idea of ehat Im talking about. Thank you for your time.
Its called the Nut Shutter
Stop being mean
We have a patch of berries growing like strawberries they look like little raspberries but tighter little balls all together can’t figure out what they are
Could they be ground covering raspberries. These grow along the ground like strawberries. They hold up to foot traffic.
You forgot about the cremson berry! (my favorite)
I found some berries growing on the corner of the yard directly beneath the fence and wondered what kind of berries they are?they are drying out right now but I took pictures of them and the leaves are very small maybe 3/8 inch to 1/2 inch long oval and pointed the berries are about 1/4 inch starting to dry out, I would like to send the pictures to find out? In the beginning they looked like gooseberries but they are too small I believe.
Hi. This list is a great resource. Thank you for taking the time to list all the berries. I’ve always wondered how many varieties there actually are. Very helpful. Oh, there is one thing I did want to mention. You seemed to have left out the avocado. That is botanically considered a berry as well. 🙂
You’re right, by botanical definition strawberries aren’t berries, and neither are a lot of the other “berries” listed here, including raspberries, blackberries, mulberries, plums and cherries. They are, however, often called “berries” in everyday English.
At first I thought that this article was just listing the “berries” that are considered berries in everyday English, but then I noticed it had also listed grapes because they “are botanically classified as berries”. However, pumpkins, bananas and avocados are also botanically classified as berries, and aren’t on the list. This article seriously needs redoing, because the author obviously had no idea what they were doing.
Whoops, that was meant as a reply to Patrick Henry’s comment; I don’t know why it ended up as a reply to this one.
Peanuts are berries
No, they’re not.
The peanut is a legume, it belongs to the botanical family Fabaceae (also known as Leguminosae) which is the bean/ pea family
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thank you for taking this time for listing all the berries it has been a very good guide especially because I’m allergic to berries and melons.
watch out cause there are berries not on this list like bananas, pumpkins, and avocados. Strawberries, raspberries and more are not berries
I have these bushes in my yard that I am trying to identify, the leaves are shaped much like that of a raspberry plant and are crinkled med green and they bare fruit the size of my middle finger round in shape looking very much like a small cherry, however do not have the stem like a cherry. They are med bright red in color and have a pit in the center. They seem to taste good any ideas??
Could be a bunch of things. Goumi, Hybrid Silverberry, Narrowleaf Honeysuckle, Autumn Olive, or Cornelian Cherry, to name a few. Google them.
There’s only so much I can do without a picture.
Don’t forget the banana. Yup, it’s a berry.
As are pumpkins, avocados, tomatoes and watermelons. Also note that the majority of the “berries” listed here aren’t actually botanical berries. This list is a complete mess.
First year for a fasr growing bush with cream colored flowers in clusters that start green and ripen in the fall to deep purple, The largest stems has a muted purple color to them. Very light porous stems.
In Niagara Falls region. Mostly in the woods. Never seen it but sprouting up in several places.
Hello,
A friend of mine gave me a bag full of some berries, but I don’t know what they are, or if they are safe to eat… she has eaten them. It is pretty much like a cranberry but darker outside and inside. The seeds remind me of a grape. Someone tried it and said it is very tart. I have been reading the list of berries but I don’t think I have found them, it is difficult to find pictures of the seeds. I have a picture, I could send it but here I do not find a place to upload it.
Thank you very much!
I have these berries growing in my garden, and I don’t know what they are… They’re red when they’re not ripe and a bit sour to eat. Then when they are all right to eat they’re black, and they’re sweet. They look a little bit like blackberries. I don’t know, they might be. Their leaves are thin and small with a light army green colour. Do you know what they are?
You should really start replying to the questions that people put up. It’s your responsibilty as a website owner.
Most on the list are not berries. Berries have seeds packed randomly in the flesh, surrounded by a skin (sometimes called a rind). The biggest are Melons & Pumpkins, then Cucumbers Squash, Aubergines etc., then Tomatoes, Grapes, Gooseberries etc.
Raspberries, Strawberries, Loganberries, Boysenberries, Blackberries etc. are NOT berries. They are compound fruits (like Pineapples), with seeds on the outside, one per little individual fleshy part.
Citrus are segmented fruits, needs no explanation, nor do stone fruits (Cherries, Peaches etc).
All these divisions are artificial, based on appearance and seed distribution, fruits within each division are not always related genetically, but Apples and Pears are.
Ha I found this berrie growing wild in the woods black 1/4 round with seeds like a grape, like a muscadine or scumptum, but not either one they are smaller, I tried one and they are sweet 2 weeks ago, all are gone noe birds or deer got them What are they?
Are all fruits that found in groups reffer to berries? Just like Grapes
Nope, by botanical definition, berries are fleshy fruits produced from a single ovary. A lot of fruits found in groups, such as blackberries and raspberries, aren’t actually berries.
i have holly berries in my yard
Raspberries, blackberries, and raspberries probibly along some some mroe i have missed, are not berries. and you almost missed some such as bananas.
i keep seeing a odd fruit at the grocery store and have been told it is a berry. its deep red, large grape sized and has long thick hair like things covering it. what is it, how do you eat it and what is the flavour like?
Rambutan. Peel of the outer layer. Don’t eat seeds.
Pictures to show what the berries look like would be helpful, I have red berries that look like small strawberries but they are not strawberries, I am trying to find out what they are and if they are eatable or poisonous. but since I do not know the name of them it is hard to identify them with out a photo by the berry names would be very helpful. my grandson keeps wanting to eat them..
My daughter has a tree in her back yard that is growing what lools just like blackberries what are they.
thanks to anyone whi can give an answer
Sarah Pilgrim
Probably black mulberry
My father in law , has a vine on his fence that has a green berry/grape on it , it is ripe in the fall , He says it is a Skipanon . I have been unable to find any information on a Skipanon berry or Skipanon grape . Could this be the nickname of another berry or grape . Do you know anything about a Skipanon?
It’s called scuppernong! It is a native variety of grape to the southern US.
http://homeguides.sfgate.com/differences-between-scuppernong-muscadine-60643.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuppernong
I have a few questions. 1.Are there ever white berries? 2.Can you describe the tastes of these berries? (Blueberries, blackberries, blue raspberries, red raspberries) 3.Could Pokeberries easily mix into a patch of blueberries?
Poke berries are toxic! And yes they often grow mixed into blackberry patches but they are on stems that have a reddish color to them.
Are you color blind?
I am interested in finding the name of a berry that is grown in S.E.Poland. I believe the colors are red, black and pale white and they are used more as a preserve than a table item.
Those are probably currents, they are edible. The black ones have sor of a spice to them, while red and white ones are tart, kind of like an unripe blackberry.
Hi, I have a large tree-like bush in my front yard with black berries on it that grow on it. I live in Vancouver, BC, Canada. There’s a pit inside the berries that I can easily bite through. The berries have no crown on them, and when they’re un-ripe they’re green/red. They grow out in clusters, what type of berries/plant would this be?
I have small spindly bush in my garden, It had small white flowers with yellow centres in clusters on it which have turned to green then black small clusters of berries . What is it.
I love barberries it’s used commonly in Persian cuisine. I grew up eating them with chicken and rice.
Hi,
I saw you mentioned Cloudberry as “bland”. I have to disagree on that. They are somewhat sour, with a strong and complex flavor that makes it my favorite berry of them all. This is from my own experience picking an eating fresh cloudberries many times.
Boson
I love strawberries!
you forgot banana
physalis?
I have a bushy look plant that has lots of blueberries appearance on them in groups but greenish lots seeds inside it was labeled flowering strawberry plant but not much taste to it but bones died tasting yet? We live in Montana glendive area
i am genuinely concerned about who Bones is. Please write back and let me know ❤️
Hope someone still reads the comments here! LOL Among a myriad of old keepsakes I’ve inherited recently, there’s a small cloth bag filled with about 1/4 cup of dried berries. The bag and contents have to be around 100 years old. At first I thought they were seed. There is a ink-stained note attached that reads somthing like: “Mus krat berrys from the Muskrat trees in _ _ _. The horses was very fond of them. These are over 40 years old.” (written before 1955) The words that I’m interpreting as “Muskrat” are smeared – only the Mus, the “k” and the “t” are pretty clear. Any ideas of what this would be. The family homesteaded in Idaho, by the way.
I just found a Muskeet tree online that has beans. One of the family did move to New Mexico in about 1900, until her new hubby was shot in a gunfight that he instigated!!! From there, this great-great grandmother moved to California. Do the “seeds” inside of the Muskeet tree beans look like dried berries? Would horses “love” them? Or, are there similar trees in the prairies of Idaho???
I have berry tree in the backyard. The berries look exactly like blackberries but are a cross between white/yellow/a little green. I thought they were blackberries but aren’t changing color. They are very sweet and tasty. Anybody know what they are?
Found it! It’s a white mulberry tree, yummy!
Calafate berries
Jujube, honeyberries and pineberries are missing from the list.
Hi, found this site while trying to solve a crossword clue here in UK.
CLUE IS:- North American fruit
ANSWER:- W*C***B*R**
Can anyone help me?
Thanks
John
The answer would be WICKLEBERRY
A pumpkin is a berry too.
That is correct. As is a watermelon, banana, avocado…and many more. But prior to what you might think, a strawberry is not really one of these.
I forgot to mention… Raspberries are not berries either.
I am doing a project about berries and want to know more about WHERE they grow. If you did that almost everybody would come to this site. This site does say that for some of the berries but not all. Thanks for hearing me out!! 🙂
Since the definition of a berry is a fruit with seeds within the skin, or a fruit formed by a single seed/ovary, than us HUMANS fall into this category. No joke.
Not all humans are fruit.
and oran berries, pecha berries, nanab berries, etc.
LOL!
XD
Lmfao! I was thinking the same thing! Pokemon dork right here. This list has been extremely helpful. Even if it’s not covering everything, it’s covering a good bit. Plus, when I’m looking for information on berries, a blackberry, etc., better be included even if it’s not was some call a true berry. I mean, berry is in the name. When I think about looking for berries, blackberries are one of the main things that come to mind. Were talking about foraging in the woods and junk, not scientific crap. Is it safe to eat? That’s what’s important here. Not what something technically is or isnt, regarding terminology. Edibility and safety are what people are most likely looking for. Anyway, thank you for taking the time to make this list. It saved me a lot of work, as now I can find more information on the plants listed here. Rather than trying to look up every berry singularly, im not too experienced here, and only know a handful of berries by name. Its hard to find something when you don’t even know what it’s called. Again thank you for your time. And pecha berry person, thanks for the laugh.
Hi you forgot honeyberry Worcesterberry jostaberry pineberry
they forgot alot lul
They are from POKEMON I LOVE THAT GAME!!!!!!!!!!!
nice try, but you have listed only about half of the known berries…African Berries, etc.
thanks, Jack
let me know when you get it right….
Hi , I got a small tree in my yard it got light purple berries with a seed that looks like a cherry seed. I live in South Africa any advice on what berry it is and is it toxic
Might it be a damson plum?
So, blackberries, strawberries and raspberries are not berries. Bananas and tomatoes are. You might want to get this right, gardening channel. LOL.
Avocados and pumpkins are berries also.
they are not
yes they are
Really there not
@ all.
Those are gourds.
Actually, you missed the Brazilian Berry = plinia cauliflora. It’s called “jabuticaba” in Portuguese. It grows on the branches of gorgeous trees in Brazil. Delicious, very sweet, it’s thick-skinned, black on the outside, with white-pinkish juice and seeds inside. Used on syrups, jams and liqueurs.
Hello Claudia. You are right in remembering these authors about our “Jabuticaba”. In fact, I have a tree of this delicious and gorgeous jabuticaba plant in my yard here in Lauro de Freitas, Bahia. I think we get to be argus-eyed on our national concerns.
You guys forgot watermelons, avacados and many others
they are also berries
yew berry toxic ?? the seed is and leaves yes .but the red part & clear jucie not (in mordration ) meidcal use of leaves also xo
Some edible berries missing from the list …
Seaberry or Sea buckthorn, Hippophae rhamnoides;
Jostaberry, Ribes x culverwellii, (cross between a blackcurrant and N American and European gooseberries);
Rowan, Sorbus aucuparia;
Hawthorn, Crataegus monogyna.
I think you need to double check your information about cloud berries. They are not shrubs or trees, but extremely small plants which grow one berry per plant. I know. I live in Alaska and I pick them. In Sweden they are highly prized for jellies and syrups.
I agree, Carol. Here in Newfoundland and Labrador we call them “bake apples”. Anyone who has spent a day on the bogs and barrens picking them can appreciate why they are so expensive to buy at the roadside! Scandinavian cloudberry liqueur is a real treat!
Darrell.
Dewberries don’t just grow in the Northwest. Central Texas is dewberry heaven! I’ve been picking them and making cobble with them for more than 50 years. This year was a HUGE crop that kept producing.
You forgot about Service berries! This is one of my favorite bushes, usually the first to flower in sprinf with beautiful 5 petal white flowers, early producing, heavy yeilds of bright pink-purple berries similar to blue berries but with a taste all their own.
I also didnt see haskap on your list. These berries are similar to blueberries in growing habits and taste. The fruit is slightly longer than it is around. Super pretty flowers in spring.
Dewberries also grow in the Midwest. My family and I picked them when I was a child, growing up in Missouri. Love dewberries even better than blackberries, since they are so much larger!
Hey, I’m from Missouri too! Midwest pride!
You forgot oranges
That’s citrus.
What is a walter berry?
I think he plays shortstop for a baseball team
Have to add Sloe berries, Dark purple, one large seed, bitter taste can use to make sloe gin. Very common here in UK.
You forgot schnozberries! Lol
Thanks for the list.
I have never seen a ‘red’ mistletoe berry. Mistletoe in my Oak trees always have White berry’s.
I have a tree that has a leaf like a red bud but has green berries. What is it?
You missed Chuckleberry
Luchipogen is a great berry that I love to eat around New Year’s Day. It is non toxic, and very delicious and I go around shoving them in my mouth. They are native to Australia and you reply should add it to your list!
I was really surprised, to find that there are so many different kinds of berries ,other than the ones I knew which is about ten, it is really amazing , all the different kinds of food that we eat, n foods that we never knew existed,i am always interested in learning about things we eat, your site is very informational thanks
Has anyone mentioned Marionberries? They make lovely pies!
WATERMELONS ARE BERRIES
strawberries don’t belong here!
What is wrong with the commentaries on this website?
Watermelons are not berries. Look it up. They are of the melon and gourde family of fruits which grow on creeping vines, normally on the ground.
Tamara Dawn is the only one with some sense. Marion berries are an actual berry.
It seems the berry list and the commentators forgot to mention Lychee, a fruit commonly grown in China and in some areas of Southeast Asia, particularly Guangdong and Yunnan, where oolong tea derives from ancient trees more than a thousand years old. Nevertheless, Lychee is the sole member of the genus Litchi in the Soapberry family, so technically it would botanically and agriculturally be classified as a berry.
Note: for Shafeeqa and others like her: read the notations on the list of berries; anything resembling blueberries, blackberries and raspberries are normally nontoxic. Nontoxic. Nontoxic. Did I mention they would be nontoxic.
As for Shafeeqa’s comment: It is not correct to say or write that: “I got a small tree in my backyard and it got light purple berries that looks like a cherry seed.” This entire sentence is grammatically atrocious. It would take me to long to explain. Nevertheless, I will write out a better way so that the ears of the educated will not be painfully subjected to idiocy. Instead, the sentence could have been written: I have* (in place of “I got”) a small tree in my back yard and it has* (in place of “it got”) light purple berries growing from it. Also, instead of saying: it has “a seed like a cherry” you can say: It has a seed that resembles the cherry fruit.
Is it that much to ask the world over to speak and write proper English? If you’re going to speak English at least do everyone a favor and make use of it correctly. When I learned Afrikaans I made sure I learned it fluently before I spoke and wrote it fluently. I would expect this level of incompetence from U.S. and British citizens but not someone from South Africa. Then again, is not South Africa an old dominion of the Dutch and British colonial empires, where Afrikaans is nothing more than a Low Franconian West Germanic language descended from the Dutch vernacular and long derided as rhotic and inferior to the mother language? Of course, and even though it gradually grew to have developed distinguishable characteristics by the mid- to late-18th-century detractors continue to deride that the Afrikaans language is nothing more than spoken out of laziness and a lack of a formal education. Unique, yes, but relatively isolated and primitive, even more.
For anyone who thinks avocados and watermelons are berries why are you even on this webpage? Why? Just to make silly, erroneous, uneducated comments. There are real people who view this site to learn because we are amature or intermediate horticulturalists and/or botanists who want to learn more about what we do and perfect on it. The totality of comments only shows how dimwitted and unrealistic you are as people. Do everyone a favor and grow up and come back when you have a brain cell of sense to be jointly of a serious adult conversation.
*amateur
Wows ues shure shwded us a ting or too aboot ur porper edumakation. Ues mist bee sow prude ov uesilf.
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I hope that drives you batty. OCD much? They have medication and therapy for that now days.
As long as the readers understand the basic content of the posts, that suffices for most normal people.
And you are telling us to grow up. Lolz
How berry swiit u r, deer Lee. 🙂
Sometimes humor is the best medicine in this life…
Some people make life so serious and complicated.
Things we’d learned in school & titles we achieved is sometimes hindrance to see how beautiful this simple life is. Let us enjoy God’s creations, this berry life & all that is in it.
Let just enjoy people & their sense of humor.
No one is perfect, anyway. IMHO.
To the contributors… thank you!
Well wrote.?
You’re right, they did forget dingleberries.
I appreciate the fact that your rude, arrogant, and unnecessarily aggressive rant (that would absolutely warrant a punch in the mouth for being a total piece of sh*t for no reason) about someone else’s poor grammar did, in fact, contain grammatical errors. You are a hypocrite, and I hope you’re ashamed about making an ass out of yourself. Cheers.
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Jostler’s rant is a grammatical train wreck, and I love the irony.
Hi,
You mentioned the Gooseberry but not the Cape Gooseberry which is very different to each other…they are from different families and each have very different characteristics, the Cape Gooseberry closely related to the tomatillo and to the Chinese lantern. The Gooseberry is from the family Grossulariaceae. The Cape gooseberry is a member of the plant family Solanaceae, it is more distantly related to a large number of edible plants, including tomato, eggplant, potato and other members of the nightshades and despite its name, it is not closely related to any of the cherry, Indian gooseberry, or Chinese gooseberry. So each has their different characteristics despite ‘same name’, one is sweet, the other not so much, anyhow, if people are aware before they grow these both tasty berries they can research which one they prefer…hope this helps, Cheers, Linda
There’s also the Olallieberry – a hybrid of the Loganberry and the Youngberry.
I think we need to distiguish between the botanical defintion and the cullinary definiton of a berry. If we’re going to be technical / botanical a bananna could be considered a berry – but it would not be appropriate for this list. And in eh same vain a strawberry would not be a berry – but certaonly appropriate for this list.
Is a pomegranate a berry?
Yep. Pomegranates, kiwis, and bananas are all berries.
On the island of Newfoundland, and maybe other areas of eastern Canada, there is a berry that grows in shaded mossy places in the evergreen forests. My mother told me many years ago that it is called Maidenhair Berry. The berries resemble tiny long white eggs, about 1/4 inch long, and have to be pulled up out of the moss on long strings of maidenhair fern. They have a faint taste of wintergreen, but you need quite a lot of them to get a good mouthful. The treat is well worth the search.
Also in Newfoundland, the lingonberry is called partridgeberry, and there is a similar one that grows in marshes which is known as marsh-berry.
The cloudberry is known in Newfoundland and Labrador as bake-apple, and is certainly not “bland”, as described above. The flavour is intensely delicious and a little acidic. Used widely in baking, syrups, and even alcoholic liqueur, bake apples are relatively expensive to purchase from local pickers.
We also have a high-bush squash berry. The fruit is bright translucent red, round and about 1/4 inch in diameter. It has a large flat seed which makes it necessary to sieve the pulp when making jelly.
The wild mountain ash tree, actually a large shrub, is locally known as dogberry. The berries occur in large bright orange clusters and are somewhat bitter, although not toxic. They can be made into dogberry wine, but are usually left for the wild birds in the fall.
Hi, i had a tree before at my backyard. I think it was owned by the previous owners. It produces red berry/cherry-like fruits. We always thought that it were just cherries grown in the tropical that’s why it looked and tasted kinda different from normal cherries we usually see on tv. So, the fruit resembles a tiny cherry because it is light red and has a green stem. Its not poisonous as birds tend to eat it too, and well, my family members arent sick or anything. And it tastes kinda sweet, but its is very liquidy and has tiny seeds which gives that rough-ish taste in your mouth when you eat it. We would eat it everytime the green cherries go ripe. The tree looks like a normal tree, almost like an apple tree? but it has long pretty shaped leaves. My dad decided to cut it down a few years ago because the leaves that shed gave us so much work, we had to rake the backyard everyday. But now, my mom is really into gardening and she wanted to plant that tree again. We tried searching for its baby trees or roots that had been left, but none was there. So, we are just gonna buy its seeds. But, we have no idea what its called… So, please help!
Sounds like panama cherries. Soft fuzzy leaves? Hope this helped.
myrtle berries
I am trying to identify a berry from my childhood. It looks like a blueberry but it is black, a little larger than a blueberry, and covered with fine hair-like material. It grew wild on my parent’s property in south-east Tennessee. The flavor was very similar to a blueberry but sweeter and juicier. My mother told me that they only grow wild and that they always called them bearberries (because they looked like black bears). I have not seen them in years and I’ve never seen them anywhere else. Do you have any idea what they are actually called?
Bear berries or huckleberry depending upon where u live
Huckleberries aren’t hairy so that one’s out. Bearberry is also known as Kinnikinnick and doesn’t look or taste anything like you’re describing. I don’t know any hairy berries offhand, but the prickly currant has little stems on the berry that might come across as hair?
You forgot mulberry
Dingleberry
I AM A BERRY ENTHUSIAST. I ENJOY THE ACT OF BERRY EATING. I FEEL AS THOUGH THE LOOMENON BERRY IS BETTER THAN THE LAMEONON BERRY BECAUSE IT IS PRETTIER. I ONLY EAT BERRIES BECAUSE MY DOCTOR SAID A BERRY A DAY KEEPS THE CREEPS AWAY. HAVE A NICE DAY.
so can I prune blackberry bushes to keep them where I want them and not so wild and crazy. Will pruning them hurt the plant?
Lacy mentioned Service berries which I believe are also known as Saskatoon berries. I remember Saskatoon pies as a kid growing up in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
Buckthorn berries!
Soap Berries
I was looking for a ” shake berry ” and the real name begins with the letter ” A ” . I was told about this berry from a farmer recently and can’t remember the real name .. he said the berry is very high in antioxdants . anyone know ? the farmer originally is from Lithuania ….thank you
Hi Joe, I’m not sure if I am correct but I think the berry you are talking about is an Açai.
Not unless he got the berry’s place of origin wrong, because açai are native to South America. 😛
ye but the i is dif xD
Strawberries aren’t berries and you’re missing bananas in that list .
Shalom Guys!!!
look, this is a compilation of the original Berry List, plus all your suggestions plus my little research to enrich the list. have a freshly & Sunny Day!!!
Blackberry
Miracleberry
Gooseberry
Strawberry
Cape Gooseberry
Marionberry
Huckleberry
Tayberry
Loganberry
White Raspberry
Golden Raspberry
Elderberry
Lingonberry
Barberry
Barbados Cherry
Bilberry
Bittersweet Berry
Cherry Species:
Sourcherry
Chokecherry
Sandcherry
Cornelian Cherry
panama cherry
Mulberry Species:
Mulberry
Red Mulberry
White Mulberry
Black Mulberry
Currant Species:
Currant Berry
White Currant Berry
Persimmon Species:
Black Persimmon
Baneberry Species:
white baneberry
Baneberry
Hawthorn Berry
Sea Buckthorn Berry
Autumnberry
Yewberry
Goumi ‘Sweet Scarlet’ Berry
Sloeberry
Native ginger Berries
dogberry
Yumberry
myrtle berries
Strawberry tree berry
Beautyberry (Callicarpa bodinieri ‘Profusion’)
Himalayan honeysuckle (leycesteria formosa) Berry
Cotoneaster Berry
Pyracantha Berry
Porcelain berry
ginger’s bright berry
Harlequin glorybower berries
Elaeodendron australis Red olive Berry
Blue Lilly Pilly Berry
Hairy bird’s eye berry
Soapberries
Saskatoon Berry
Squashberry
Rosa Rugosa “berry”
Brazilian Berry
Rowan Berry
Sarvisberry
Wintergreen berry
Honeyberry
Sandcherry
Pineberry
Worcesterberry
Jostaberry
Thimbleberry
Sugarberry
Salmonberry
Nannyberry
Juniper berry
Juneberry
Farkleberry
Indian Plum
Goji Berry
Foxberry
Cowberry
Bunchberry
Chokeberry
Bearberry
Buffaloberry
Wineberry
Amlaberry
Youngberry
Boysenberry
Cloudberry
Olallieberry
Dewberry
Blueberry
Acai Berry
Cranberry
Raspberry
Ground cherry. When the papery outside dries and falls to the ground , unwrap and eat the delicious yellow berry. Easy to grow. I bought 2 plants at the farmers market. My parents had these, easy to dig up and transplant.
Here in BC Canada we have an orange type wild raspberry/blackberry we call a Salmon berry.
Nice job. I found a bush I have never seen. It is about 10 feet tall with long, thin, leave covered branches which resemble rambling rose branches. The leaves are small with serrated edges resembling raspberry leaves.The fruit hangs singularly from underside of the branch and leaves. The fruit is about the size of a marble, bright red with a pit like a chokecherry but with a thicker, more juicy area between the pit and skin. It tastes sumwhat like a Bing cherry.
What about mulberries from a tree? Light green in color. Italian Nonnie grew it in Cranston, RI.
Service berry and Tea berry were not on your list
I love strawberries
I have a friend who grew what she referred to as “Inchberries” they have a cluster-type look like a BlackBerry, but they are longer and fairly big. I can’t find any information on an Inchberry on the net. Does someone know anything about these kind of berries? Or if they may be referred to by another name?
I have juice to make jelly tomorrow. My son’s father in law has a berry tree in his yard from which the berries came, but he does not know how to spell the name, so I am guessing: goo-meyer berry. The juice is red. It is not mayhap. We know that much. I have ever tried researching but Google did not help. The Meyer might be mire. No one seems to know. I’d like to know to label my jars tomorrow. Gooseberries are green.
Gooseberries actually ripen to a purplish color
Has anyone heard of a hardberry? Native to Britain apparently. I can find no reference to it and wondered if it’s usually known by another name…
Are you from the university of Wollongong Nicola if you are do you know 4e class
I am looking for a berry that sounds like “Johanica” berry. Can anyone help me?
Trying to ID a missouri vine similar to a grape with large grape like clusters of small dark purple fruit (smaller than a pea) with a single seed currently ripe.
You forgot bananas and watermelon
online,i saw that bananas are practically berries too
Whoever wrote this is an amateur. They clearly forgot the dangle berry.
Crowberry, Appleberry, Yangmei, Calafateberry, Sapodilla, Saskatoon, Snowberry…..these are of the rare variety, but you should add them to your list
Mulberry add this to your list
What a bunch of “Dingleberries.” lol
You didn’t mention groundcherry
My favorite. Yellow when ripe.
There are numerous errors in the article, as well as some of the (holier than thou) comments. Technically, a berry is a fruit produced from the ovary of a single flower in which the outer layer of the ovary wall develops into an edible fleshy portion. A strawberry is not a berry, and neither is a raspberry. They are aggregate fruits. Bananas, avocados, and pumpkins are berries. It’s okay to be mistaken; nobody knows everything. But if you are going to criticize others, be sure of your own facts.
Funny, I was just thinking the same think as I was reading this article. lol
You Apparently Forgot Olallieberries Which Are Used For Preserves, Jams & Pies.
I saw on tv about a new berry that helps the heart. But I can’t recall the name of the berry. All I know is the name starts with sh.. it’s a red berry that grows on bushes not trees.
Goji berries are my fave lol
You missed the kiwi berry
There is a tiny berry that is deep orange we used to make jelly from called buffalo berry, leaves are gray. Delish!
you forgot lingonberry
They have it as cowberry – in Western Canada we call it bog cranberry. They should have listed all the common names under each fruit.
It said “berries a to z.” There is no berry on this list that starts with the letter z. Change the title to “berries a to y.”
That’s petty
….and Berry Manilow. No stones???
Pineapples are actually classified as berries
Don’t forget aronia berries – – super nutritious! Tart and acerbic right off the bush, needs some processing but great in smoothies and slurries.
What about cherry berry
Conkerberry, they are yummy, grow in the wild, and ripen in summer, found in India
How about bramberries?
Hi I recently came across this berry on my travels in South Africa but do not have a clue what these berries are I will try to describe them
Colour : purple/ black
Shape: oval type
Marking or distinct features: circular opening with rough rim at one end
I want to know about African berry because that fruit awayse reduce the weight as I known, is it right or not?
jostaberry is missing
Missing: solomon’s seal (which I cannot find poison/not poison info on anywhere)
Rocky mountain twin berry
Bluebead lilly
dogwood berry
And the one you called Juneberry should have Saskatoon in brackets because everyone in Western Canada knows them as that.
What about teaberries? We ate them wild when I was a kid, and I’ve not seen them since. The flavor is that of old fashioned teaberry chewing gum.
What about Halle Berry. LoL
In West Texas we used to pick wild Agerita (or Algerita) berries that my grandmother made into jelly. They were more seed than fruit and not very big, but very tasty.
Strawberry is not a berry because the seeds are on the outside
But bananas are berries
I agree… The only reason why I read this article was to see what is Z Berry was!
Wtf?
Dingleberry?
I am a Pro gardener at Mexico City and I found this article and the forum comments really useful Thanks!!
You left out banana
Is there more berries in the entire world cause this seems like less. Or the world is just too big, and the berries are too small. Lo-loud.
You missed out the best berry of em all – Halle Berry
Cape gooseberry
You forgot about serviceberries and hawthorne berries. They are native to Idaho/Wyoming region, and they often grow right next to one another. Serviceberries grow in to large shrubs that produce sweet, soft fruit, with a flavor that resembles the artificial cherry flavor you taste from foods in stores. Hawthorne berries are less flavorful, harder, and have big seeds in them. They are fine to eat, but the shrub produces large thorns to be careful of.
Peppervine berries
wild sugar plum
We have a berry that when ripe it is yellow it has a paper like skin on it that must be peeled first before u eat the berry. The berry is not sweet what is this berry called. What r the benefits of eating this berry. Thank u
Hi. I just did a crossword-type puzzle in which one of the answers is Rowan berries. I don’t know if it’s been listed in the comments already or not.
Where in California could I find fresh white berries. Some Middle Eastern grocery store have the dried ones but I am looking for fresh ones.
Mulberries
I think you missed out the swanberry
potatoes are berries
Absolutely gutted not to find gingerberry and whortleberry. Stupefied.
Don’t forget the rarely seen, but often discussed after dark, dingleberry! These are considered by most to be inedible but are a highly sought prize of the western white bear that is easily found in the Castro.
You missed pumpkins watermelons and avacados
You forgot Cotoneaster (toxic). Also, if you said persimmon is a berry like a tomato, then why isn’t tomato on the list? Also, kiwi, pomegranate and banana are also classified as berries for some reason
I love mayhaw berries and the little known gum bumelia berry. Both make wonderful jams and jellies.
As a child, I found small green fruit growing low along the fence lines in Louisiana and East Texas. Their inside resembled citrus and they were sweet to taste. We called them May Pops.
how about Saskatoon berries?? Also Josta berries??
What happened to pineberries? They might look like backward strawberries, but they are completely different. They can be white with red seeds or black with faintly yellow seeds.
Some of the listed food items aren’t actually berries, for example strawberries and plums. However bananas, watermelon and avacado are. Why are these not listed??
I have a round berry with a round seed and has a green claw like thing on the bottom
rowanberries (Sorbus aucuparia L.)
you forgot apple berries and miracle berries
Maqui berries?
Pineapples are actually berries
ive got a fruit that’s growing wild in my bush. It looks like a strawberry plant but the fruit looks like a raspberry. its very tasty and sweet. years ago somebody told me in the old years they called it poor mans apple pie. What is the real name of this berry
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What about the Jamesberry, I grow them in my backyard but I believe they have laxative effects. Proceed with caution!!
Thanks.
What is the purple berry invasive weed that haunts Australia please
You forgot the Dingleberry.
You forgot the ‘PineBerry’… it’s in shape of a strawberry and tastes like a pineapple! It also has reversed colours of a strawberry! Look it up!
Strawberries aren’t berries and you forgot avocados, watermelon, pumpkins, kumquats, oranges, and tomatoes.
I live in Eastern Ontario. We have a bush growing in the woods that has berries with spikes on the berries. There are green ones and redder ones on the same bush. I am assuming the red ones are ripe. Are you able to tell me what they are and if they are edible? Thanks.
by the way you forgot the Agarita berry they are found native to south Texas they are red when ripe and grow on small-large bushes, the leaves are long and pointy. They make great jelly, but are sour when eaten without sugar.
Seaberry or seabuckthurn?
You forgot snow berries
Although not sweet (AT ALL) , You forgot caperberry’s!
My favorite is the Halle Berry
Thank you for making this. This is really helpful for me 🙂
You forgot the Serviceberries. Amelanchier spp, also known as shadbush, shadwood or shadblow, serviceberry or sarvisberry, or just sarvis, juneberry, saskatoon, sugarplum or wild-plum, and chuckley pear is a genus of about 20 species of deciduous-leaved shrubs and small trees in the rose family. Makes good jelly.
You forgot the Pawpaw. Pawpaw trees can be found growing wild in the U.S. as a shade-loving, understory tree. Pawpaws are actually very large berries, sometimes growing longer than 6 inches. They turn from green to yellow (or brown) when ripe. The fruit has a strong tropical flavor — similar to bananas, pineapples, or mangoes
You forgot Mayhaws. The mayhaw, the fruit of the mayhaw tree, is a lesser-known berry that is harvested in May. They’re actually hawthorn berries that ripen and drop in early summer, around the month of May. Mayhaw trees (Crataegus aestivalis, C. opaca, and C . rufula) are indigenous to the southern United States and grow in the wild as far west as Texas.
The Australian Midgum berry, a purple and white fruit. Cute little shrub that grows any where in Australia except at my place.
What about golden berry? Btw best list I’ve seen so far
When I was about 10 years old, my family was on a vacation to the San Francisco area, and one of our relatives had a shrub in the front yard. I don’t recall anything about the shrub, but it produced mid to dark purple berries about an inch and a half long, half to three quarters inches across, and as I remember, it was blocky, almost square looking at it from the end. Any suggestions for what it might be?
Silverberry
Juneberries are also known as saskatoon berries.
Haskap berries
Currants are divided into red, black and white.
worcesterberries
Jostaberries are gooseberry currant crosses.
Beautyberry
Also honeysuckle berries (of which haskap is just one species).
Have you heard of a Lusterberry?
Hi. We have something in our backyard that looks like a berries and it has purple, blue, and green color. It crawled up in our tree and it has 3dirrefent color. I hope someone can tell me what it is.
In Autumn in PA, in the woods behind my house there are some bright red berries with a big black seed inside of it and orange-yellow creamy pulp. Does anybody know what they are?
Good afternoon. I live in Jamaica and i have been eating berries that looks like the Privet berry. It should be poisonous but i have been eating it everyday from the beginning of this month (September 2020). These berries grow on a tree with a smooth bark…is it the same tree? (Concerned consumer)
No this isn’t it. Mine is either dark blue or purple. Leaves and fruit the same color. The fruit turns red when I think the fruit is dying. Thank you anyway.
Aren’t Avocados a type of berry?
Tea berries – they have a similar growth pattern and may be in the same family as wintergreen.
I have a berry? that I can not identify. Can send jpg picture.
why are berries berries, cant everything just be food and thats it
Great list!
Not sure why it’s saying that white mulberries are not palatable for human consumption. We bought some at the farmer market in British Columbia and they were sweet and delicious
What about Service Berries, Black Haws (think they’re from a Hawthorne tree).
I recently read about a weed-like plant that has red, raspberry-looking fruit at different junctions of the plant. Can’t remember the name, but I believe it said that they’re edible, but not particularly good to eat.
There are, of course, there are nightshade berries, one of which is very toxic.