[Jamestown1630]

My husband just passed by the computer and was attracted to that!

(My Granny used to give us “Huckleberry Pie”, and I loved it; but what is a ‘Huckleberry’, and how different from blueberry?)

[Ellendra]

but what is a ‘Huckleberry’, and how different from blueberry?

Officially, huckleberries have 10 or so large seeds, while blueberries have very tiny seeds.

Unofficially, it depends on the region. There are many varieties of blueberry that get called huckleberries, but the reverse seldom happens.

To add to the confusion, there's a variety of nightshade that has been renamed the "Garden Huckleberry". Probably as a way of avoiding the word "nightshade".

[Liz]

American folklore has it that colonists in the New world thought blueberries were the hurtlberrys they knew in England....later corrupted to denote them as huckleberries.