Found a mulberry tree with some fairly large fruit yesterday while going on a walk yesterday. And I figured I might as well share. The fruit is sweet when fully ripe and pleasantly tart when not quite ripe unfortunately my other pictures didn’t turn out well
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That looks delicious. I guess I’ll have to add Mulberry to my wish list.
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Mulberries are pretty common around here. They’re pretty invasive.
Found this cherry a few hundred feet from my house while walking my dogs. It’s on a forest edge so no reason for me to go if not for my dogs. Fruit are small and disease pressure is high so I doubt it will yield much edible fruit.
Other common fruit seen on walks are wineberries (invasive), black raspberries and sometimes wild grapes
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Yeah I try to eat as many white mulberries (Morus alba) as I can to destroy their seeds to prevent their spread (okay I only really eat them because they’re tasty but I do destroy the seeds by eating them). But I would actually try to spread seeds of any tree that seems to be primarily red mulberry (Morus ruba) because that’s the native species. As far as I can tell most trees here are hybrids of white and red mulberries
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Went on a walk yesterday to check on a serviceberry tree that birds seem to be ignoring and it still has fruit although some of it is rotten. Weird thing is there’s three serviceberry trees down the street that are stripped clean of fruit by birds while this tree has had ripe fruit long enough for it to drop on the ground and rot on the tree. I collected a fair amount of fruit for later and ate even more fresh off the tree.
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any idea which species this one is? also do all those berries show the star shape fruit? id guess not since not all of them do even here. but would be cool if you could get star shaped ones like api etoile
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I wish I knew, identifying what specific species serviceberry trees are is currently beyond me. Can even be different for taxonomists too if I understand correctly. If anyone knows a good resource for learning to distinguish them let me know.
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Amelanchier: Dichotomous Key: Go Botany can try working through this dichotomous key. i think its focused on the northeast but still worth trying
Do you have any pictures of the flowers?
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so i went through the key with what i have and im between a. arborea and a. laevis without pics of the flowers. which would make it possible its autumn brilliance, a hybrid of the two. I believe it is resistant to rust as well, and its a very common landascaping plant, which would track with them being purposely planted as well.
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There is rust on some fruit but rust wasn’t very bad this year in general (at least in serviceberries. Hawthorns and flowering quinces seem to disagree). But I suspect there’d barely be any fruit uninflected in years with more rust pressure (which is common here)
Unfortunately I don’t have flower pics because I didn’t find the tree until l last week. I’ll check iNaturalist though
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