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Leave part of the colony to regenerate.

Chokecherry

RANGE:

Widespread throughout the U.S. (except in the southeastern tip), southern Canada and the Northwest Territories

HABITAT:

Few plants have as wide a range of habitats as chokecherry. It can be found in a variety of evergreen and deciduous forest types, and in deserts, basins, plateaus, savannas, flood plains and prairies.

POSITIVE ID:

• Chokecherry is a thicket-forming shrub or small tree.

• The small cherry-like fruit is borne in racemes and has an astringent taste until slightly past the fully-ripe stage (see When to Harvest). Fruit color ranges from red to purple or black.

• Each fruit is 1/4–3/8″ in diameter. Like other cherries, it is a drupe, with a single seed covered by a hard shell.

• Leaves range from 1–4″ long, are finely toothed and are broadly elliptical to ovate (egg-shaped).

• The bark has raised horizontal rows of lenticels.

EDIBLE PARTS & PREPARATION:

Fully ripe chokecherries make a fabulous fruit leather, juice, jelly and syrup. Hop over to page 108 for how to make Fabulous Fruit Leather.