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Huckleberry
Huckleberry
Huckleberry is a common name used in North America for several species of plants in two closely related genera in the family Ericaceae:* Vaccinium* GaylussaciaHuckleberry may also refer to:-Plants:...

is a common name used in North America for several species of plants in two closely related genera in the family Ericaceae:
  • Vaccinium
    Vaccinium
    Vaccinium is a genus of shrubs or dwarf shrubs in the plant Family Ericaceae. The fruit of many species are eaten by humans and some are of commercial importance, including the cranberry, blueberry, bilberry or whortleberry, lingonberry or cowberry, and huckleberry...

  • Gaylussacia
    Gaylussacia
    Gaylussacia is a genus of about fifty species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae, native to the Americas, where they occur in eastern North America and in South America in the Andes and the mountains of southeastern Brazil...



Huckleberry may also refer to:

Plants

  • Garden huckleberry, Solanum scabrum, in family Solanaceae
    Solanaceae
    Solanaceae are a family of flowering plants that include a number of important agricultural crops as well as many toxic plants. The name of the family comes from the Latin Solanum "the nightshade plant", but the further etymology of that word is unclear...

  • Cyrilla racemiflora
    Cyrilla
    Cyrilla racemiflora, the sole species in the genus Cyrilla, is a flowering plant in the family Cyrillaceae, native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the Americas, from the southeastern United States , south through the Caribbean, Mexico and Central America to northern Brazil and...

    , called "he huckleberry", in family Cyrillaceae

People

  • Mike Huckleberry
    Mike Huckleberry
    Michael "Huck" Huckleberry is a politician, restaurateur, and small business owner from Greenville, Michigan. In 2008, he was elected as a Democrat to the Michigan State House of Representatives. He represents the 70th House District, which includes all of Montcalm County and a portion of...

     (born 1948), politician, restaurateur, and small business owner in Michigan
  • Huckleberry Finn
    Huckleberry Finn
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a classic Mark Twain novel.Huckleberry Finn may also refer to:*Huckleberry Finn , a fictional character in the Adventures of Tom Sawyer...

    , title character in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

See also

  • Huckleberry Botanic Regional Preserve
    Huckleberry Botanic Regional Preserve
    Huckleberry Botanic Regional Preserve is a regional park and nature reserve in the eastern San Francisco Bay Area, in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, Northern California. It is a park within the East Bay Regional Parks District system...

     - park in the eastern San Francisco Bay Area of California
  • Huckleberry Hound
    Huckleberry Hound
    The Huckleberry Hound Show is a 1958 syndicated animated series and the second from Hanna-Barbera following The Ruff & Reddy Show, sponsored by Kellogg's. Three segments were included in the program: one featuring Huckleberry Hound; another starring Yogi Bear and his sidekick Boo Boo; and a third...

    , a cartoon character
  • Huckleberry Island
    Huckleberry Island
    Huckleberry Island is an island located in Long Island Sound and part of New Rochelle, New York. It lies approximately three-fourths of one mile east of Davids' Island....

    , in Long Island Sound and part of New Rochelle, New York
  • Huckleberry Railroad
    Huckleberry Railroad
    The Huckleberry Railroad is a narrow gauge heritage railroad located in Flint, Michigan, just north of Flint.The railroad received its name due to its slowness; it was said a person could jump off the train, pick huckleberries, and re-board the train as it traveled without difficulty.Former Denver...

    , a narrow gauge heritage railroad in Crossroads Village, Michigan
  • Huckleberry Ridge Tuff
    Huckleberry Ridge Tuff
    The Huckleberry Ridge Tuff is a tuff formation created by the Huckleberry Ridge eruption that formed the Island Park Caldera that lies partially in Yellowstone Park, Wyoming and stretches westward into Idaho into a region known as Island Park...

    , geologic formation that lies partially in Yellowstone National Park
  • Huckleberry Trail
    Huckleberry Trail
    The Huckleberry Trail is a rail trail in Montgomery County, Virginia, connecting Blacksburg and Christiansburg. The trail features a wide trail with an asphalt surface at the middle, and unpaved shoulders....

    , a rail trail in Montgomery County, Virginia
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