Plant Information

Common Name: BERRY - HUCKLEBERRY
Scientific Name: Solanum melanocerasum

N/A

R90.00

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Description

• Annual
• Annual.
• Garden variety of Black nightshade - related to tomatoes, peppers, tobacco, eggplant and potato.
• Resembles a pepper plant, bushy and erect.
• Its leaves are pepper-like, pointed, and medium green.
• Clusters of small white flowers are borne along the main stems, followed shortly by berries
• the size of a large blackcurrant - green when immature and black when mature.
• Needs full sun.

Culinary Uses

• Can freeze it for later use.
• Use as a substitute for other berries in recipes.
• Can be cooked, sweetened and used on their own, or combined with other fruits such as apples, lemons and grapes, to make jellies, preserves, jams, chutneys and pies.
• Garden huckleberries make an excellent syrup. Is great on pancakes, waffles and ice cream.
• The cooked and sweetened fruit is also delicious in pancakes
• Can freeze it for later use.
• Use as a substitute for other berries in recipes.
• To prepare the fruits for use in most recipes, it's necessary to subject them to heat (to soften them)
• and to add about 1-1/4 cups of sugar for every four cups of raw berries.
• Can be cooked, sweetened and used on their own, or combined with other fruits such as apples,
• lemons and grapes, to make jellies, preserves, jams, chutneys and pies.
• Garden huckleberries make an excellent syrup.
• Is great on pancakes, waffles and ice cream.
• The cooked and sweetened fruit is also delicious in pancakes

Parts Used

• The berries.
• The fruits are not edible until fully ripe.
• They are toxic if eaten unripe.
• Berries are ready to harvest about two weeks after they first turn black, when their skin has changed from shiny to dull, and the flesh is very soft.

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