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Fruita CO | This is apparently not the same as the chokecherries we have in Colorado. They are pretty bitter, but they make really good syrup or jelly, the syrup is my favorite on pancakes. You have to go up to about 8000 ft. to find them, & you have to watch out for bears...where there's ripe chokecherries, there will be bears.
"We found in the mountain passes today a considerable quantity of a small fruit called the choke-cherry, a
species of prunus, growing on low bushes. When ripe, they are tolerable eating, somewhat astringent, ...
ordinarily so abundant that it constitutes a large portion of the vegetable food of both Indians and white
trappers who visit these regions."
- John Kirk Townsend, 1834. | |
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Choke Berries eatable?
