It grows throughout the Pine Barrens and provides shelter to a variety of wildlife, including white tailed deer. Examine the underside of the leaves. Blueberry and Huckleberry are two of the most common plants found in the Pine Barrens. Like all other plant life growing here, they both can survive fairly frequent burns. Although they both look alike, Blueberries are sweeter and Huckleberries have a grittier taste due to their larger seeds.
Huckleberries have small resinous dots there.
If it is late July or August, taste the berries. Stop 6 Notice the wide path that crosses the Kettle Hole trail. This is most likely an old wagon trail that might have originated as an Indian path or, before that, a deer trail. Today, many people explore these trails in order to find old garbage dumps. Old bottles are highly prized.