🌿🍒I posted this in the 'Plant ID' forum but am posting here as well because I also included links I want to be able to find. If my photos don't load from being pasted, I'll load them in a reply.🍒🌿
We have lived here 25 years & there's always been these shrubs/small trees on the property. A few days ago I decided to eat a few of the berries to see what they tasted like 😬 Thinking . I guess I just assumed I would be able to tell if they were poisonous Crossing Fingers! Whistling . I'm not that fond of blueberries & that's what these tasted like. I continued working in the yard for awhile & then when I went inside, I took a piece with berries inside to show my husband. I had told him stories of picking huckleberries for my grandma when I was a kid but I couldn't remember what they tasted like or what the bush looked like. As he's telling me how dumb it was for me to eat something unknown, he's putting unknown berries in his mouth D'Oh! Shrug! . Good news! Neither of us have had any issues or died Hurray! .
But we still don't know what this bush is. I took a piece with leaves & berries to my county extension but their agent was transferred & they don't have another agent yet. They did give me names & numbers for the next county, & after talking on the phone & emailing pictures, I have not heard back yet. I don't want to waste my time picking them if I can't eat them.
Links I've come across while trying to find out what I have:
This is from my extension office.
https://www.uaex.uada.edu/yard...
From the North Carolina extension.
https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/pl...
http://wildhuckleberry.com/spe...
http://wildhuckleberry.com/202...
Because besides wanting to make things for humans, I would love to make dog treats.
https://foodmorning.fr/tips-an...
All of this, & I still have no clue what these are! If I make jelly or a pie, I would really like to know what it is. Not sure "some kind of wild berry" is going to go over well.
This shrub/small tree is growing a few inches from a pine tree (right of picture) & I guess that's why it's growing like it is.
These are what people have said it could be:
Screenshots from various books. I've included book names & authors on pics for proper credit.
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