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Post by twicebitten on May 23, 2012 13:54:39 GMT -7
First......is this what I have? No experience with them..... And second......are they good to eat? They must be good to at least some animals b/c something very large had trampled down the grass and wildflowers underneath this tree on the Blue Ridge Parkway. My hike today turned up plantain, yarrow, mullein, and these.
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Post by offtrail on May 23, 2012 16:15:29 GMT -7
For sure that is a Mulberry tree, most trees have very sweet fruit but some not so sweet.Two types of trees white or red mulberry's. I love them both but you got to watch them very closely for wild animals love them also. Not going to say why but do not eat unripe fruit, if you need to know just pm me Young leaves from this tree can also be Eaten look for leaves that are just unfolding... boil for 20 min. I think you need to PM me something you need to know about this tree
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Post by angelhelp on May 23, 2012 16:42:24 GMT -7
That is absolutely a mulberry tree! Love 'em! We eat the berries every year and look forward to them. Once in a while they ripen oddly, i.e. part of the berry ripens but the rest remains green or maybe white. Different little blobs change color at different times in those years; so far, it's only happened twice. Every other year, the berries are just there for the taking. Ours in in the front yard and had been a double-trunked tree. A lightning strike zapped some of it and the last major storm necessitated the elimination of one trunk.
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Post by ColcordMama on May 23, 2012 17:00:26 GMT -7
Definitely mulberry tree. Here's more info on them:The fruiting ones produce either purple or white berries. Birds love them and will poop purple and white blobs all over your car. Ripe mulberries usually have itty bitty bugs (thrips?) crawling on them, so rinse them off well before eating. You can always tell when the kids have been into the ripe purple mulberries because they'll be purple all around their mouth. The stems on mulberries don't pull off easily, but don't really affect eatability much. You can make mulberries into mulberry jam or even mulberry wine, but remember about those itty bitty bugs. Mulberry trees are either fruiting or non-fruiting. Purple fruiting is pretty messy, with purple blobs crushed into the ground under the tree and purple bird poop everywhere. I love mulberries, but they can be an acquired taste, as they are sweet but with a sort of veggie note, but maybe that's the stem flavor. LOL
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Post by angelhelp on May 23, 2012 17:38:57 GMT -7
I've never seen entirely white fully ripe mulberries on a tree. Our tree produces berries that are dark, but in the ripening process pass through from green to white to purple. When there's a major glitch in the water supply (like last year's excessive rainfall), the berries don't ripen uniformly and are unfit to eat.
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Post by offtrail on May 23, 2012 20:53:20 GMT -7
I've never seen entirely white fully ripe mulberries on a tree. Our tree produces berries that are dark, but in the ripening process pass through from green to white to purple. When there's a major glitch in the water supply (like last year's excessive rainfall), the berries don't ripen uniformly and are unfit to eat. I have see plenty of white mulberries just not as common as red. I can't wait to stuff my face full of em ;D
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Post by offtrail on May 23, 2012 20:57:19 GMT -7
Definitely mulberry tree. Here's more info on them:The fruiting ones produce either purple or white berries. Birds love them and will poop purple and white blobs all over your car. Ripe mulberries usually have itty bitty bugs (thrips?) crawling on them, so rinse them off well before eating. You can always tell when the kids have been into the ripe purple mulberries because they'll be purple all around their mouth. The stems on mulberries don't pull off easily, but don't really affect eatability much. You can make mulberries into mulberry jam or even mulberry wine, but remember about those itty bitty bugs. Mulberry trees are either fruiting or non-fruiting. Purple fruiting is pretty messy, with purple blobs crushed into the ground under the tree and purple bird poop everywhere. I love mulberries, but they can be an acquired taste, as they are sweet but with a sort of veggie note, but maybe that's the stem flavor. LOL As long as they don't have bird poop on them I eat em right down. Just hoping for a good year, but we need rain....bad.
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Post by Redneckidokie on May 23, 2012 21:00:37 GMT -7
They are very good to eat. Wash them cause they have a lot of tiny critters living on them.
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Post by offtrail on May 23, 2012 21:12:38 GMT -7
They are very good to eat. Wash them cause they have a lot of tiny critters living on them. Bugs don't bother me besides they taste like the mulberries
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Post by karatediver on May 24, 2012 8:11:55 GMT -7
We have a white mulberry tree and the kids love eating them. It produces fruit almost all summer. The only bad thing is it drops a ton of the fruit on the side walk and makes a mess. Fortunately, we don't have little bugs in ours.
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Post by offtrail on May 24, 2012 8:21:43 GMT -7
We have a white mulberry tree and the kids love eating them. It produces fruit almost all summer. The only bad thing is it drops a ton of the fruit on the side walk and makes a mess. Fortunately, we don't have little bugs in ours. I like the white ones they have a good taste
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Post by offtrail on May 24, 2012 8:34:05 GMT -7
true story...One day I was out wade fishing and seen this mama duck with babies swimming under a mulberry tree waiting for some berries to fall. Well I gently slid under that tree and grabbed a branch and gave it a good shake. in a second the mom and babies were all around me just gobbling up all the berries they could. I did this quite a few times and must say the ducks had a full belly that day. Funny thing is I caught some nice fish that day but what I remember the most is sharing time with them ducks under that mulberry tree....I love the outdoors and everything about it ;D
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Post by karatediver on May 24, 2012 8:48:08 GMT -7
Great story about the ducks. My son will gather some up and feed them to the ducks and chickens sometimes. They sure love them.
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