I
identified two common berries that I had seen many times before. The first was
the blueberry plant that was growing very close to the ground off the trail.
Ever since I was a kid I would try to eat the berries I could find close to my
house and I learned quickly which ones were good and which were not. The low
bush blueberry plant is a bush I see a lot while I am out hiking and exploring
in the woods. They are not as tasty as the ones you get from the grocery store
but they are still very good. The next berry I found was a small patch of snake
berries. They were rapped around a tree growing up the trunk of it. The berry
is poisonous and if you eat enough it can kill you. Some animals can eat the
berry but they do not like the sour taste. I have seen this berry a lot in
thick patches of woods before and new that I should not try it as a snack.
(Bert Wilson 2012)
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