What Berries are these?

I was looking around my areas for plants, and actually I identified quite a few!!! Some that I identified were Wild Carrots, Milkweed, Amaranth, etc. Those were just a few though.

Anyways, I was biking down my bike trail and I came across this berry bush. My field guide was not helpful and so I put a berry in my mouth and chewed on it just a little bit, then spit it out. It tasted kind of like sour apples, with a little more sweetness & tartness. Later on though I looked in my book and found that it looked like Highbush Cranberries. However the pictures still look a little different. Can anyone help me in positively identifying this bush?

Like I said the leaves look like highbush cranberries but the fork on the leaves is much lower down than these pictures in my book. I just want to be sure. Also, when is the best time to pick these?

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I don't know what that is, but it is a very bad idea to eat anything that you can't 100% identify. Shocked

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To me they look a lot like wild crab apple, but the leaves are different.

Did you ever find any blueberries?????

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Well I didn't eat them, I just chewed on one of the side a little bit just to get some of the juices out. from my understanding most berries that are poisonous are very bitter, yet msot edible berries are either sweet, tart, or sour, but never bitter.

Speaking of those wild crabapples, it looked like there was a bush of those right next to this bush, but the berries were white.

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Ill get a pic of my Berry bushes i can figure out!

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Those look and sound right on like high bush cranberry to me. I googled and found some pics that look just like that plant. The cluster formation of the berries is especially telling. Leaf shape has a nasty habit of varying a bit from area to area. Compared to wild plants, there are relatively few poisonous berries. The ultimate rule though is nothing white can be good. You can even eat yew fruit ( a bit slimy) as long as you don't eat the seed or any needles with it. The fruit is completely harmless, but the seeds and the rest of the plant are highly toxic.
If that white fruited bush resembled the crabapples in any way to you, I'm sorry but you need to read up on your plants. First off, crab apples are on a tree, start out hard and green and turn red, but are best around frost...plus the seeds contain small amounts of cyanide. You could cook to dispell it for survival and eat it all or cook and strain to remove the harder cores and seeds if you had a kitchen...either way, they are always somewhat sour and often bitter.

The second lot look like Snowberries but the leaves seem kinda different so I'm not 100%.
If they are you can use the Juice as a Polysporin !!!