Last summer they were prolificly growing in a park preserve in Bellingham, Washington. Today we saw them growing in the Lakeshore National Forest near Cornicopia, Wisconsin.
Kresge
02-Aug-2010 05:15
These berries are delicious! I've been picking them almost daily for a couple of weeks here in PA.
Guest
09-Jul-2007 15:49
Yes, what a wonderful picture of thimbleberries! I was on a walk this morning feasting on these delicious berries and I thought "I should Google thimbleberries and see if I could find out the nutritional content of them". I didn't know you could make jam out of them! I have eaten these berries all my life. I grew up and still live on the Northernmost coast of California where these berries flourish. Nice to see such a nice picture. THANKS!! Helen C.
I'm glad you both found this picture then! The leaves are big, but more maple leaf shaped than oval. The berries are thinner walled than a raspberry, making them fairly delicate to pick, and they're not quite as juicy as a raspberry, but very flavorful.
N. Hall
25-Apr-2007 18:32
Thanks for the photo. My mother-in-law was born in 1915 and recalled when she was about 9 years old of traveling from Driggs, Idaho to Jackson Hole, Wyoming and the Wilson area. She said her mother stopped by the road side to pick thimble berries to make delicious jam. She described them as looking like a raspberry with large oval leaves larger than an apple leaf.
Robert Gregory
15-Apr-2007 23:57
I have tried for years to verify if this was the correct name for this variety of berries. My father told me the name over fifty years ago. The only places I have ever seen them grow were in Delaware County and Oneida County, in upstate New York.