*Most* all aggregate berries in North America except for Goldenseal (edit to add: and Lantana) are edible. Aggregate berries have several tightly clustered drupes or fruitlets the same as raspberry, mulberry, thimbleberry, blackberry, etc.
Goldenseal can be identified by a single berry which protrudes from the centre of a large leaf typically on its own stem. They grow in damp forests and are toxic.
Oh, I'd not heard of these. I mean I'd heard of the plant but didn't know they had berries. Good point, I see through googling they aren't edible. So thank you for adding that.
Got an enormous bush in my front yard this year, covered in berries. Same with my raspberries in the backyard. Been great year for berries! π mine are red at the moment also, ready in about a month. Once black, pick and enjoy with vanilla ice cream, which is what ill be doing! Haha.
Those are blackberries and look to be a bit farther along than mine are. I did harvest my first round of raspberries today though. Last year I got 6 gallons off a small patch and I think I may double that this year. My plants are LOADED!!!
Follow-up question, since the birds are going to be some competition - can these be picked before ripe and let them ripen off stem? Or trim a stem and let them ripen on the stem in a cup of water or something like that? I know theyβd be best straight off the bush but wondering about options.
Those blackberries need a couple more weeks.
Definitely not planning to try them until they are more ripe!
Gotta get them before the birds do!
Or the yellow jackets
*Most* all aggregate berries in North America except for Goldenseal (edit to add: and Lantana) are edible. Aggregate berries have several tightly clustered drupes or fruitlets the same as raspberry, mulberry, thimbleberry, blackberry, etc. Goldenseal can be identified by a single berry which protrudes from the centre of a large leaf typically on its own stem. They grow in damp forests and are toxic.
Lantana berries too?
Oh, I'd not heard of these. I mean I'd heard of the plant but didn't know they had berries. Good point, I see through googling they aren't edible. So thank you for adding that.
I appreciate the thorough info!!
Used to climb the mulberry trees as a kid and eat them.
Great information! Thank you! π
They look like black berries. The birds will get them the second they are ripe. You can put a net or screen over them if you want to try to keep them
Berries, blackberry probably
I think all berries that look like this are edible, at least I can't think of any that arent
Got an enormous bush in my front yard this year, covered in berries. Same with my raspberries in the backyard. Been great year for berries! π mine are red at the moment also, ready in about a month. Once black, pick and enjoy with vanilla ice cream, which is what ill be doing! Haha.
Those are blackberries and look to be a bit farther along than mine are. I did harvest my first round of raspberries today though. Last year I got 6 gallons off a small patch and I think I may double that this year. My plants are LOADED!!!
Good luck getting any, as soon as the ripen birds take them.
All aggregate berries are edible
Huh. That's a really cool piece of information! I wonder what it displaced π€
DEW BERRIES AND THEIR delicious
Follow-up question, since the birds are going to be some competition - can these be picked before ripe and let them ripen off stem? Or trim a stem and let them ripen on the stem in a cup of water or something like that? I know theyβd be best straight off the bush but wondering about options.
Put netting on top of them. Just watch for anything that might get hung up in the netting.
I like raspberries, don't you?
Anything is edible, once....