What kind of berry is this?
I noticed these berries growing on a tree in my back yard. I was wondering what kind of berries they are and if they are edible.
Here is a picture of the berry and here is the tree
I live in South Jersey.
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That my dear is a beer tree. Those are hops! Lucky! Not really.
Mulberries.
You sure about that? I see nothing resembling hops on this tree….
@Silhouette…... why would you even say that without even hinting at the fact you were kidding?
Anyway im not certain they are mulberries. Pictures i find online of them look skinny and long . These are much shorter.. Though, i must say the leaves look very similar to images im finding online.
@uberbatman I actually thought I had. My mistake, I shall flag it for removal post haste.
lol i see you did now that i refreshed the page.
So, safe to start munchin down on these suckers?
From the wiki: “The ripe fruit is edible and is widely used in pies, tarts, wines, and cordials.”
There are red, black, pink and white mulberries and they come, like us, in various shapes and sizes. That is certainly a mulberry. My maternal grandmother had two in her yard with a bench in between. I learned to knit on that bench and slipped on the squashed mulberries many times.
mmmmmmmmm theyre quite good. a bit on the tart side, but good none the less. Kind of left a bit of a tingling feeling on my tongue, but i suspect that is from the tartness, i figure if i coat them in sugar that should solve that issue.
Thanks everyone
now, to start workin on some mulberry ice cream.
If they were a bit on the tart side, you might wait a few days and try again. Mulberries are reallllly sweet when they’re ripe.
Curiously, they keep making ripe berries all summer. So you don’t have to panic if your first batch of ice cream isn’t perfect.
Lovely tree, by the way. Lucky you.
True story.
Made Mulberry Daquiri’s ( sp ) as hard up young partiers looking for a mixer, picked about 2 gallons of them and whipped ‘em up in the blender with some rum…yep, it was a few days coming out of the bathroom after that night. lol
They look like the blackberries that grow quite well around here in MN. But those don’t grow on trees…...more on viney bushes. But it looks like you guys got it figured out.
Mulberries, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, strawberries make a lovely sauce for vanilla ice cream. Make a sugar syrup (google recipe) and stew berries in it until it looks like sauce but stop before it looks like jam.
Those are my favorite and so great to munch right off the tree or bush. Used to eat them by the basket full. You will get a bit Smurfed eating them but it is so worth it. YUM YUM YUM
Holy shit…. mulberries are awesome. Ive been eating them all day :P
I really cant believe i’ve never tried one before today….
@uberbatman WAIT! DON’T EAT THOSE!!! We were all wrong, those are dingleberries!
Yes, make sure poison control’s number is handy, but you’ll be alright, usually you have tio eat about a gallon of something before it kills you. lolol
When my daughter was about a year and a half old she ate a few berries off a Logostrum tree in the yeard, I flipped out, turned out that the worst would be a bad case of the runs….refer to the Daquiri post. hahahaha
@uberbatman….Mulberries are quite tasty but in my neck of the woods they draw opossums (cats are cool with them but the incessant barking by the dogs led to the removal of our small tree). See ya…..Gary/wtf
The one in my yard is a male – so it produces mainly leaves and crap making me rake constantly.
My neighbour has a female – the white berry kind. There are a couple of the dark purple kind around too.
We call them Toot. Which means berry.
Like this kind
@zenele: Are you telling us you live in Libya? Toot in what language?
Yes I live in Libya.
Toot is in Hebrew.
Kaddafi and I share a tent in the summer. We are having toots for breakfast with cream.
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