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Brown As A Berry?
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It's a phrase most of us will have heard, but what berries are brown?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I suspect that the phrase might relate to dried berries, used in cooking, rather than to berries still growing on their host plants.
For example, cedar berries are naturally blue but dry to become brown:
https:/ /www.st arwest- botanic als.com /catego ry/ceda r-berri es/
(The same is true of juniper berries).
For example, cedar berries are naturally blue but dry to become brown:
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(The same is true of juniper berries).
If you listen to this link, back in Chaucer's time, "brown" meant "dark" so a brown berry was any dark coloured berry.
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Back pre Chaucer the Medlar was a very popular and easily cultivated berry. The Medlar Berry was brown.
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