A previously well45kept secret in their native siberia these sweet and blueberry45like fruits can be eaten fresh from the bush or baked into jams pies and muffins lonicera caerulea var kamtschatica produces fruits known as honeyberries very similar to blueberries in flavour with a slight aftertaste of honey these oval black45blue fruits are high in antioxidants and begin to ripen in early june the shrubs are exceptionally hardy long45lived and easy to grow producing inc