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Temperate Fruit & Orchards => Temperate Fruit Discussion => Topic started by: shaneatwell on November 24, 2017, 03:36:20 PM
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Check out this video around 22:30. Shows a 20' tall tree blueberry. Is it really a blueberry? Viking guy posted about something similar ages ago but I didn't imagine the trunk being so robust.
https://youtu.be/n7WhO11QHJo (https://youtu.be/n7WhO11QHJo)
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No blueberry or relation I know of in the US grows 20ft. I guarantee you the tree is a native called Amelanchier, serviceberry , June berry or Saskatoon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelanchier . up close if you gave any random person a berry they would think it s a blueberry. The larger seeds, edible seeds, and the size of most trees give them away. Flavor is cultivar and species specific. The ones I have eaten have been good but I had to fight the squirrels and rarely got a ripe berry.
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Had my first Juneberries earlier this year, off a couple of trees in a bank's parking lot. I was very surprised at how good they were.
Agree they look very similar to blueberries.
Yum.
May plant some of my own someday.
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I rewatched that piece and he doesn't mention the flowers, which are quite different in blueberry.