So it has berries (?) that are green when unripe and dark red when ripe. It is quite sour when unripe and a sweet almost similar to raspberry and black currant flavour when ripe (I’m not the best at describing flavours). The berries grow to the size if about grapes, they have many seeds inside.

I am quite sure they are edible since I used to munch on em when i was younger. Both ripe and unripe.

The bush in the picture grew to the size of my knees but i have seen larger bushes.

They kinda remind me of black currant but with larger berries and it produces less berries.

I live in the Helsinki region.

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  2. There’s both green and red ones actually – greens are more sweet than the red and I only have red ones growing on my yard, dammit…

  10. They are called Gooseberries. The inside of the berry tastes delicious, sweet and flavourous, the skin tastes sour. From what i know there are green and brown Gooseberrie’s, my favorite Gooseberrie’s are the green one’s. 🙂 Safe to consume, delicous and healthy!

  11. Karvianen, goosberry, karviaismarja. Edible and fairly sweet when ripe. You can make rad juice out of it boiling them with water in a large kettle. There are two variants, dark and light, raw dark ones look like the light ones when unripe. They get a bit soft when they are just right, for juice a bit early harvest still makes OK juice, just taste the berry, you will know.

  16. Edit: I do not put just random berries to my mouth. I was asking because I used to eat these a lot as a kid but knew them as “kirkonmarja” since I first ate them from a patch that the local church used to grow. I knew that they were edible just didn’t know what they are called. I just saw a lil bush growing by the roadside when I went for a walk and that reminded me of my childhood and wanted to know what they were called.

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