Whinberries are a type of small bilberry / blueberry and are distinct from blueberries but part of the same fruit family. They grow wild round here and on Monday we went to Tegg's Nose and picked some to make cordials, jams, muffins etc.. I decided to make a Tegg's Nose cheesecake for my grand-niece's birthday party today.
Bilberry is also known in English by other names including blaeberry in Scotland,whortleberry in southern England, whinberry, winberry, windberry, wimberry in Northern England or fraughans in Ireland.
The cheesecake is a quick no bake cheesecake, different in texture to baked ones but delicious too.
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In Staffordshire I have seen bilberries in low growing, ground level shrubs and also in a tall bush.
Our milky West of Ireland skin is ideally suited to the North of England weather . :)
Ditto, I also have a fair, freckled skin vulnerable to sunburn.
great ty
Blueberries and whinberries are distinct species. within the same genus,Vaccinium. Blueberries are the larger of the two and consist of species, Vaccinium corymbosum and angustifolium. Whinberries are divided into six species, of which mytrillus is the commonest.
My son, Matthew, and I picked bilberries [whinberries] on the Long Mynd in Shropshire, which is in the same broad area as the places that you are describing. This was a good way to augment a walk in the country.
Frank
Whinberies is more common a name for them in this part of the world, . very very tiny blueberries.
Derdriu
My daughter in law is very good and protects his young skin from the sun's rays at all times. WE are Irish by genetics and I have the Irish skin hat burns to a frazzle I the sun . I never go out unprotected
I have noted that whinberries [also known as bilberries] are very common in the Southern moorlands of the Pennine hills, where Tegg's Nose is situated. When we walked the Staffordshire Cloud, also in that region, I saw how prolific they were.
But while we do get wild strawberries they are not as prolific where we re s they seem to be in your area, Derdriu. We do get blackberry in abundance.
Veronica, Very delicious-looking photographs and scrumptious recipe! Is that a favorite hat of your grandson's? Didn't it show up in the photo of him climbing across stepstones? His enthusiasm over fresh, wild berries is completely understandable since I find it difficult to resist snacking on wild strawberry ground cover while gardening.
Thank you. I thinking picking the berries ourselves and making the cheesecake whilst the berries are fresh makes a huge difference.