It’s a commonly held belief that taste and smell are the senses most closely tied to memory. The smell of highbush cranberries is unmistakable — pungent and musky. I love it. It’s the smell of the ...

September sunlight glints on the lily pads dotting the surface of Pats Lake. I stand along the lake shore with my daughters, grandchildren and my border collie, Kéet. We are out scouting for highbush ...

The highbush cranberry shrub isn’t a true cranberry, although the berries are similar in both taste and appearance. The Latin name is Viburnum opulus var. americanum, which is important to know if you ...

Q I have heard of a plant called highbush cranberry. Does this plant really produce cranberries that you could eat? A Highbush cranberry is a common name that's used for the viburnum species Viburnum ...

Q: Can you identify the plant with the red berries in the photo? - Royce Aardahl, Sauk Rapids, Minn. A: The plant goes by several common names including highbush cranberry, American cranberrybush and ...

LAKE MINCHUMINA, Alaska — When my twin sister Julie and I were 8 or 10 years old, every early August we haunted open birch forests and brushy slopes, eyeing sweet-smelling highbush cranberries as they ...

This time of year, there are some shrubs that exhibit colorful fruits and seeds. These would include sumacs, wahoos (yes, wahoos), and highbush cranberry. As the photos indicate, these fruits are not ...

Now that fresh snow is covering Crossroads at Big Creek, one might expect to see only white. But shrubs along our trails provide plenty of color. Dogwood stems are a bright burgundy and the berries of ...

Thanksgiving dinner wouldn’t be complete without a side dish of cranberries. Whether we open a can of jellied cranberry sauce or make our own, this is a generational dining tradition around the world.

Q: We purchased property and were told by the elderly gentleman that all the berry bushes he planted were edible, but he couldn’t remember the name of the shrub in the photo. I thought it might be ...