Bilberries, aka blueberries, but with a lot more taste.
They won’t be ripe until sometime around July though, depending on the weather
It’s a bilberry flower. Yes, you can pick and eat them when they ripen, but it will take some time yet. The berries will often ripen in July, but it depends on weather, temperatures, the amount of pollinators etc.
Those look like blueberries. They ripen sometime in july
Thats blueberry flower. You can even eat the flower it tastes similar to the the fruit
Here is quiz of some common poisonous berries in Finland. Google translate doesnt do the Finnish names correctly tho. It will tell you which are poisonous tho.
That could be Solanum Dulcamara, which is poisonous. When did you take this picture? The only edible berry you could mistake it is blueberry, and that doesnt make berries until autumn.
Oh I forgot to comment on when it will ripen. Depends how far north you live but id say july-august
Please, don’t eat berries you don’t know. There are some poisonous types.
Yes, those are bilberries – you can tell them apart from bog bilberries (which are less sweet) by the green stems. Bog bilberries have brown stems (in Finnish, mustikka or juolukka)
We used to eat the flowers as kids, they taste good. My grandma called them ant lampposts
Not only can you eat them, you should. They are considered to be one of the best superfoods out there.
I put them into porridge, tastes great!
looks like blueberry to me..go ahaed, If you get the runs please report back. (joking they are fine bon appetit)
Bilberry flower, which in July will turn into a very good berry. Makes wonderful jam or eaten as is
It’s blueberry or bilberry to english speakers. If you translate blueberry from english to Finnish and back you’ll end up with bilberry.
Never eat any berries in thw forest. Their seeds will start to grow in your stomach and burst out trough your skin.
Oh boy.
That’s a blueberry and it’s ripe around july when it has a dark blue color
Yup! Forest gold right there
They say blueberry gives you better vision
Bilberries! I took a photo of ours last week. I’m in the Italian Apennines, and they grow abundantly on the higher meadows.
As others have said, it’s bilberry(sometimes also called blueberry here), and they’re great. If you’re into baking, you could bake a bilberry pie.
Bilberries or European blueberries (same plant different names) – mustikka in Finnish. They get dark once they ripen in like… July or so. Very healthy and tasty. Great in porridge or with cereal or mysli, but especially wrapped in crepes with ice cream. Dangit now I made myself hungry.
One of my favourites!
Very edible when ripe and they’re totally free if you don’t count the time and effort it takes to pick them up. Eat about 50 of those every day for the rest of your life and you’ll increase your current life expectancy by at least 50% and improve your quality of life even more. Or so the tales say…
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Its blueberry and yes you can.
Bilberries, aka blueberries, but with a lot more taste.
They won’t be ripe until sometime around July though, depending on the weather
It’s a bilberry flower. Yes, you can pick and eat them when they ripen, but it will take some time yet. The berries will often ripen in July, but it depends on weather, temperatures, the amount of pollinators etc.
Those look like blueberries. They ripen sometime in july
Thats blueberry flower. You can even eat the flower it tastes similar to the the fruit
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Here is quiz of some common poisonous berries in Finland. Google translate doesnt do the Finnish names correctly tho. It will tell you which are poisonous tho.
That could be Solanum Dulcamara, which is poisonous. When did you take this picture? The only edible berry you could mistake it is blueberry, and that doesnt make berries until autumn.
Oh I forgot to comment on when it will ripen. Depends how far north you live but id say july-august
Please, don’t eat berries you don’t know. There are some poisonous types.
Yes, those are bilberries – you can tell them apart from bog bilberries (which are less sweet) by the green stems. Bog bilberries have brown stems (in Finnish, mustikka or juolukka)
We used to eat the flowers as kids, they taste good. My grandma called them ant lampposts
Not only can you eat them, you should. They are considered to be one of the best superfoods out there.
I put them into porridge, tastes great!
looks like blueberry to me..go ahaed, If you get the runs please report back. (joking they are fine bon appetit)
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Bilberry flower, which in July will turn into a very good berry. Makes wonderful jam or eaten as is
It’s blueberry or bilberry to english speakers. If you translate blueberry from english to Finnish and back you’ll end up with bilberry.
Never eat any berries in thw forest. Their seeds will start to grow in your stomach and burst out trough your skin.
Oh boy.
That’s a blueberry and it’s ripe around july when it has a dark blue color
Yup! Forest gold right there
They say blueberry gives you better vision
Bilberries! I took a photo of ours last week. I’m in the Italian Apennines, and they grow abundantly on the higher meadows.
As others have said, it’s bilberry(sometimes also called blueberry here), and they’re great. If you’re into baking, you could bake a bilberry pie.
Bilberries or European blueberries (same plant different names) – mustikka in Finnish. They get dark once they ripen in like… July or so. Very healthy and tasty. Great in porridge or with cereal or mysli, but especially wrapped in crepes with ice cream. Dangit now I made myself hungry.
One of my favourites!
Very edible when ripe and they’re totally free if you don’t count the time and effort it takes to pick them up. Eat about 50 of those every day for the rest of your life and you’ll increase your current life expectancy by at least 50% and improve your quality of life even more. Or so the tales say…