Who knew huckleberries grow in Siberia?
A reader, Alexander Kopeykin, contacted us with this photo of wild huckleberries from the Eastern Sayan Mountains in Siberia, Russia.
According to Alexander, this past year was the best crop he has seen in 10 years!!
Alexander shares information about the huckleberries he finds in Siberia:
We have two main huckleberry species here. The lowland type plants grows north of N57°30’ latitude near the sea level. Another type grows in the South in the Sayan Mountains at elevations from 3,000 to 4,000 feet.
The northern species give a little larger berries and so is more convenient for commercial harvesting. The mountain berries are more delicious and have an excellent flavor.
The plants are rather low, usually not higher than 15 inches, stems are green to the roots, and berries are covered with a waxy bloom. There is no soil in usual sense – just moss on granite stones. The roots in the moss form a sort of net.
Alexander, THANKS for the information on our huckleberry cousins near the same latitude, elsewhere on the globe!
