Where Do Wimberries Grow?

These are wild berries found on moorland and mountains across a lot of Wales and uplands in England and Scotland. Wimberries look like small blueberries but are less juicy and more acidic, though just about sweet enough to eat raw.

Where can you find bilberries?

Bilberry grows wild in the arctic and subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The bilberry shrub produces round blue berries also known as bilberries.

Are bilberries and Wimberries the same?

They are all names from different parts of the British Isles to describe this tiny purple moorland berry – generally speaking the Welsh call them wimberries, the Irish call them fraughans, the English say bilberries and the Scottish use the word blaeberry, although there are many derivations of the word and regional ...