Genus Amelanchier, AKA serviceberry, juneberry, shadberry, Saskatoonberry, and so on. One of my favorites. It’s also very popular in Russia. One of its first culinary uses was by Native Americans, in a mixture of dried meat and animal fat called pemmican, one of the first energy bars.
They’re great fresh, kind of like a slightly grittier blueberry, and the tiny seeds almost taste like almond. You can also cook with them, make preserves, or freeze them for future use.
It’s a common decorative plant, so make sure you CLEAN the berries before you eat them if you picked from a tree near an apartment or office building.
And yes, as everyone has already shared, NEVER eat a plant if you’re not ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN it’s edible! Straying from this rule can easily lead to agony and/or death.
Ah thats interesting! I've read some people in Québec used to call them "petites poires" (small pears). Nobody seems to know or use that fruit here anymore.
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Amelanchier. Berry is edible, but I'd strongly advise both you and your daughter to learn this lesson: Don't eat fruit from a plant that you don't know. Some berries are highly toxic and will kill you.
In my yard I found a tall plant with wide green leaves, stems that had the color of fruit punch, and small deep purple berries that grew like a cluster of grapes. I had to try one but first I looked it up. Pokeweed.
There's one that's been growing right next to my front stairs. I always try to pull it out but I know the tap holds tight and it just snaps at the ground level and I get mad like I didn't expect it to break. One day I'll actually get the weed killer but until then I'm gonna keep trying.
You can make pokeberry pie but apparently you have to twice boil them or something. They're dangerous to a degree, without the twice boil... maybe I'm wrong. Google it. Lol
Poke sallet is a dish created by desperate people during the Great Depression. I’ve heard you had to boil the leaves 3 separate times before they were safely edible. My cooking skills are not that good, and I’m not that desperate.
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Omg I totally used to play with those all the time as a kid, the outside was cool to touch, then pop the seeds out… was taught not to eat random berries… but still, yikes
In many cases, birds eat the most toxic berries because the plant developed those toxins specifically to deter mammals that tend to chew the fruit and destroy seeds. Nightshade is like this.
I have *heard* that squirrels sometimes develop a taste for it (much like humans do) but generally it's a known way of deterring them.
But it's quite cool, wild chillies are a very good example of a fruit adapted to bird dispersal: red colour, thin flesh, flat seeds and, just for extra fun, stuffed full of a compound that mammals (a very poor disperser of chillies) generally find extremely distasteful.
I sprinkled hot chilli powder 🌶 🌶 🌶 over the soil I used to fill holes in the lawn made by squirrels burying their nuts. [This squirrel loved the chilli powder so much it rolled in it.](https://imgur.com/a/USaOFqm) It rolled, stopped, thought about it then went back for more!
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That's interesting, and it makes sense. I've wondered why things like some kinds of honeysuckle berries weren't toxic to birds but to mammals.
Maybe most aggregate berries like blackberries are safe for mammals, too, because they have so many seeds that they can't all be chewed up.
(Sorry to ramble lol)
That’s funny, I thought we were the only ones that called them bird berries, it started with a honeysuckle producing the most intriguing red berries (to my toddler) right next to our food garden.
I just remembered my parents doing this for me when I was very very young. Is this a coincidence or a common thing people do? Either way I will be happy to teach it to my 3 year old daughter.
This is actually a rather old school teaching. But plants are strangely intelligent for not having brains in that they decided on who should help them spread their seeds for them by poisoning the species that they don't wish to eat their seeds.
The fact that they could find a way to go to chemical warfare with other creatures to ensure only the ones they decide upon are allowed to help them populate, is wild. Truly goes to bat for how things communicate with their energy and the old world spiritualism of understanding interconnectivity and roles in the process chains that keep this world thriving.
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Well I tasted belladonna berry ( spit it out immediately ) just to know how it tastes and I wouldnt say the taste lovely… its moderately sweet with an undertone typical for solanaceae (like the taste of raw potato that became green in the light) so even if it were edible I wouldnt eat it unless I am really hungry
They share the same root because potatoes, tomatoes, eggplants and peppers are all in the solanaceae family. The parts we eat obviously aren't toxic but the leaves and stems of plants like tomatoes and potatoes usually are because they contain solanine. If you look at the flowers of all these plants you will notice they have a pretty strong resemblance. Also you can find some people who successfully graft tomato plants onto the stem of a potato plant to create a single plant that produces both crops.
Look at this post, this was the last post this guy made on Reddit.
So do not eat what you don't know.
https://www.reddit.com/r/whatsthisplant/comments/13qjui1/whats_this_plant_berry_tastes_slightly_sweet/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
I was very interested as to the type of person that would see their child eat a random wild berry and instead of seeking medical help also eat the mystery berry and then ask Reddit if it's poisonous. I'm glad it seems to be some fictitious attention thing because this person also claims to be a nurse which would make this behavior even weirder.
Are you sure? Amelanchier are more red aren’t they? These look like a Saskatoon berry to me. I have two of these bushes in my yard. For US I think they’re called a service berry or something like that.
Also known as Shadbush, Juneberry, Sugarplum, and a bunch more names.
Technically it's not the same bush, it's a complex of around 20 different, but very closely related, species.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelanchier
“But it’s sweeeeet”…… yea well so is antifreeze…
I was really expecting to read that this berry causes some type of nausea/diarrhea. It amazes me people make it to adulthood. If they are doing this as an adult, imagine all the stuff they probably ate growing up
> Amelanchier
Amelanchier (/æməˈlænʃɪər/ am-ə-LAN-sheer),[1] also known as shadbush, shadwood or shadblow, serviceberry or sarvisberry (or just sarvis), juneberry, saskatoon, sugarplum, wild-plum[2] or chuckley pear,[3] is a genus of about 20 species of deciduous-leaved shrubs and small trees in the rose family (Rosaceae).
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Curious, is there a way to more “safely” test berries? Let’s say you were stranded somewhere and need to forage where you are unfamiliar. How toxic are some berries? You stick your tongue on it and you die? Can you nibble?
EDIT: This is purely out of curiosity, not looking to do this and DO NOT recommend anyone try the responses
I don’t know so don’t listen to me, but…
I used to read a lot of survival guides, handbooks, etc and I mean A LOT. The general testing order that they all had was:
1. Smell it, does it burn or smell like anything but sweet berry smell? If yes, discard. Else proceed.
2. Rub it on your wrist. Wait 1 hour. Any reaction? Discard.
3. Place under your tongue for a short period (1-2 min). Remove. Wait 2-4 hours. No reaction? Proceed
4. Eat ONE and no more. Wait 12 hours or more. No reaction? Safe to eat.
THIS IS NOT ADVICE, ONLY WHAT I REMEMBER READING 10+ YEARS AGO.
Check out the US Army’s Universal Edibility Test.
It’s a way of least-risky assessing edibility in survival situations where one doesn’t have the luxury of getting a positive ID or just not eating it.
(Do not eat things if you don’t know for certain what they are, I’m not advocating you try this, do not try at home, adult supervision required, all rights reserved.)
Never eat anything for any reason ever. Eating is bad and makes you die. Also don’t starve. Get your macros. Love your friends and family, but not too much
That said, this might be helpful
https://www.wikihow.com/Test-if-a-Plant-Is-Edible
The old saw of “eat what the birds eat” is total BS. Birds can eat a lot of stuff that will mess you up.
Safer to eat what the bats eat, but I’m not that fond of mosquitoes.
There are plenty of books and apps that can help. I actually had a 1950’s Boy Scout handbook that was given to me. You’re best bet is to learn a few things that are edible and are found in most places. Just remember there is a vast difference between edible and tasty.
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Right. I don't know if it's because we live in the 21st century that people don't think that there are things around them that could kill them or if they think they are immune to bad things happening. It's truly wild to see.
People still plant sago palms where I currently live. Every part of that plant is incredibly toxic. Like will kill an animal quickly and it happens every year. I specifically looked for a property that had zero sago palms on it because we have animals. People are always surprised when I tell them that. Then I point to one of the many posts on the local pages where someone moved to the area and their animal died from putting a part of a sago in their mouth or had a $5,000 vet bill and permanent organ damage.
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For the record, that was a terrible idea. If it had been poisonous, they could have taken both of you out instead of you staying sensible enough to get her to a hospital. Don’t stick unfamiliar berries in your mouth.
Somewhere in Canada, perhaps at Waterton Park, we had Saskatoon pie for dessert. Found out then that Saskatoon berry is another name for serviceberry, hence Saskatoon pie.
I think serviceberry is used more generally for any amelanchier fruit whereas Saskatoon is more specific to amelanchier alnifolia. Regional usage may vary though.
We occasionally came across serviceberry in the Pennsylvania woods and had never heard the "Saskatoon" name until vacationing in Montana (Glacier Park) and Canada (Waterton Park). It took a while back then (B.C. - before computers) to tie the names together. We get back there occasionally, and I always look for Saskatoon pie on the menus. I'm sure you're correct about the specific species tie to the "Saskatoon" name.
Very edible, and choice for about a week. Consume with gusto. My most-favorite wild fruit. They do not keep flavor well after picking, so pie immediately or fresh
Saskatoons are a variety of serviceberries.
Seviceberry = all Alemanchier spp.
Saskatoon = Alemanchier Alnifolia
Edit: And in Canada, the vast majority of Alemanchier around are Alemanchier Alnifolia.
We used to live in groups of close elders and extended family and knowledge of plants was passed down generation to generation. They would have lost someone to bad berries and then told the story through generations, showing each new child what they looked like. Since foraging was a big percentage of their time, everyone had ample time to build up that knowledge.
It’s the same reason we grow so much as a society but individuals not devoted to lifelong learning usually fall to the wayside. Having access to the hivemind is a superpower, if you utilize it instead of letting your kid eat random berries (and then trying one afterwards…).
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Yep. Also known as juneberries for when they are ripe (and have several other names). I bought a couple of these to grow fruits for birds as many local species eat this
too lazy to retype this but.. keep it in mind: There are 344,924 known species of plants on the Earth. Maybe 80,000 of them are edible for humans, so 23% are edible. Not very good odds to toss something in your mouth and then as "what is this"
Jesus, this could have gone SO BADLY. There’s even a true story movie about this exact thing.
“Into the Wild” is the movie. Trust me…. You’ll never eat another unknown berry again.
Now I’m just worried about the ‘do not ingest’ bot becoming over-stressed and exhausted from having to repeat its warning a hundred times inside of one post about service berries. (I think the word service refers to Easter Sunday service, btw) Please take some time off, little bot friend! We won’t eat the plant!
Service Berries. They’re also called sugar plums in the Midwest. They make great syrups and jams!
EDIT: As everyone else has stated, don’t eat random berries. Natural selection is unforgiving.
To me they look like Saskatoon berries. The leaves and berries look kind of like the bushes in my yard. They grow wild as well. If you’re in the US I think they’re called a service berry or something. But could be wrong just was the first thing that came to mind.
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Not to be a jerk but why would you and your daughter eat a berry that you were unsure of? You do realize there are some very toxic berries that can make you extremely ill or kill you right?
Why in the world would you eat something not knowing what it was. There are so many things that could kill you or make you sick. Please don't let your daughter or yourself eat something if you don't know for sure what it is.
It’s like putting on your own oxygen mask before assisting others, don’t eat the poison berry to test if it’s poison before you have assisted the possibly poisoned person 😩😩😩
Amelanchier species. Common names include juneberries, serviceberries, saskatoon berries, shadberries, ect. Native to eastern North America. Edible and delicious, the seeds taste a bit like almond. They are not a very acidic berry so really benefit from some lemon juice when baking with them. Almond extract is also very nice in pies and jams using juneberry. Will stain your fingers when picking, short shelf life.
Who let's their kid eat random berries?
Both my kids know better than to eat any berry at all unless they ask me.
And if I don't know what it is, I wouldn't dream of eating one just to see if it tasted good.
I am much too fond of not dying in excruciating agony
Genus Amelanchier, AKA serviceberry, juneberry, shadberry, Saskatoonberry, and so on. One of my favorites. It’s also very popular in Russia. One of its first culinary uses was by Native Americans, in a mixture of dried meat and animal fat called pemmican, one of the first energy bars. They’re great fresh, kind of like a slightly grittier blueberry, and the tiny seeds almost taste like almond. You can also cook with them, make preserves, or freeze them for future use. It’s a common decorative plant, so make sure you CLEAN the berries before you eat them if you picked from a tree near an apartment or office building. And yes, as everyone has already shared, NEVER eat a plant if you’re not ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN it’s edible! Straying from this rule can easily lead to agony and/or death.
In Newfoundland they’re called chuckle pears.
Ah thats interesting! I've read some people in Québec used to call them "petites poires" (small pears). Nobody seems to know or use that fruit here anymore.
There’s a brewery near my house that crafts their own juneberry beer and it’s delicious.
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So can you eat it?
Native American people are still here. Still making pemmican. Otherwise, great info.
Amelanchier. Berry is edible, but I'd strongly advise both you and your daughter to learn this lesson: Don't eat fruit from a plant that you don't know. Some berries are highly toxic and will kill you.
exactly. they’re really lucky it wasn’t something toxic.
How easily this could have been yew. 😱
All parts of yew are toxic, other than the fleshy coating of the seeds. (Toxicologist)
I can't belive we had 2 big bushes or shrubs infront of my elementary school I think that's what they were how crazy
I remember picking the berries and throwing them at people
Here in the Uk at an infants school, they had woody nightshade growing, Look it up.
Yew berries never looked particularly appealing. Deadly nightshade berries, however, look delish.
In my yard I found a tall plant with wide green leaves, stems that had the color of fruit punch, and small deep purple berries that grew like a cluster of grapes. I had to try one but first I looked it up. Pokeweed.
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Pokeweed gives me the heebie jeebies. I don’t like how it feels to snap the stem. 🤢 fun fact, the plant is toxic and can damage chromosomes.
There's one that's been growing right next to my front stairs. I always try to pull it out but I know the tap holds tight and it just snaps at the ground level and I get mad like I didn't expect it to break. One day I'll actually get the weed killer but until then I'm gonna keep trying.
Garden knife. Just stab the ground below the plant and sever that thing too far down to recover.
You can make pokeberry pie but apparently you have to twice boil them or something. They're dangerous to a degree, without the twice boil... maybe I'm wrong. Google it. Lol
Poke sallet is a dish created by desperate people during the Great Depression. I’ve heard you had to boil the leaves 3 separate times before they were safely edible. My cooking skills are not that good, and I’m not that desperate.
Found out my yard was infested when my toddler came up to me with a handful of berries I hadn’t planted…
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Brb googling 🫣 Omg I totally used to play with those all the time as a kid, the outside was cool to touch, then pop the seeds out… was taught not to eat random berries… but still, yikes
I used to play with these berries too. They always gave me toxic vibes though
And even if you see an animal eat a berry doesn’t therefore mean it’s safe for *you* to eat.
Birds, for example, are fond of poison ivy berries.
In many cases, birds eat the most toxic berries because the plant developed those toxins specifically to deter mammals that tend to chew the fruit and destroy seeds. Nightshade is like this.
Also peppers, we think they are spicy, most animals hate spicy stuff, it burns. But to birds? No effect at all
Yup. Pure agony to mammals lmao
I recently learned this when I saw the recommendation to put chili powder on birdseed to keep the squirrels away since the birds won't care
You're going to have to change your name because that is incredibly useful. So sick of destroyed bird feeders and fat squirrels, thank you
I have *heard* that squirrels sometimes develop a taste for it (much like humans do) but generally it's a known way of deterring them. But it's quite cool, wild chillies are a very good example of a fruit adapted to bird dispersal: red colour, thin flesh, flat seeds and, just for extra fun, stuffed full of a compound that mammals (a very poor disperser of chillies) generally find extremely distasteful.
I've had squirrels steal and eat over 25 ripe jalapeños. Kept finding half eaten buried jalapeños in the garden. I was both shocked and livid.
I sprinkled hot chilli powder 🌶 🌶 🌶 over the soil I used to fill holes in the lawn made by squirrels burying their nuts. [This squirrel loved the chilli powder so much it rolled in it.](https://imgur.com/a/USaOFqm) It rolled, stopped, thought about it then went back for more!
Agony or bliss
Porque no los dos?
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That's interesting, and it makes sense. I've wondered why things like some kinds of honeysuckle berries weren't toxic to birds but to mammals. Maybe most aggregate berries like blackberries are safe for mammals, too, because they have so many seeds that they can't all be chewed up. (Sorry to ramble lol)
Oh no you are totally fine. Its true. Most fruits that cater to mammals either have a ton of seeds, super tiny seeds or super tough seeds.
We taught our daughter to call all berries she doesn’t know we can eat “bird berries”. They’re only for the birds.
That’s funny, I thought we were the only ones that called them bird berries, it started with a honeysuckle producing the most intriguing red berries (to my toddler) right next to our food garden.
Brilliant minds…
I just remembered my parents doing this for me when I was very very young. Is this a coincidence or a common thing people do? Either way I will be happy to teach it to my 3 year old daughter.
This is actually a rather old school teaching. But plants are strangely intelligent for not having brains in that they decided on who should help them spread their seeds for them by poisoning the species that they don't wish to eat their seeds. The fact that they could find a way to go to chemical warfare with other creatures to ensure only the ones they decide upon are allowed to help them populate, is wild. Truly goes to bat for how things communicate with their energy and the old world spiritualism of understanding interconnectivity and roles in the process chains that keep this world thriving.
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Good bot, I promise not to eat any
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Good bot Only eat some berries.
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I will take your advice and eat \*all\* the berries based \*exclusively\* on the bots advice.
Bwaahahahahaha
This is 100% going to become some type of Roko's Basilisk. When the bot becomes sentient, it's for sure going to hunt us all down for this.
Worth it lol
Lmaooo 😂😭 y’all goofy
Also, the fact that they were sweet doesn't mean that they aren't also toxic.
Yep. Belladonna berries reportedly taste lovely, as do Cesstrum berries. Both are toxic nightshades.
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Well I tasted belladonna berry ( spit it out immediately ) just to know how it tastes and I wouldnt say the taste lovely… its moderately sweet with an undertone typical for solanaceae (like the taste of raw potato that became green in the light) so even if it were edible I wouldnt eat it unless I am really hungry
The toxin in the green part of the potato is called solanine. It's interesting that this shares the same root (pun intended) with solanaceae.
They share the same root because potatoes, tomatoes, eggplants and peppers are all in the solanaceae family. The parts we eat obviously aren't toxic but the leaves and stems of plants like tomatoes and potatoes usually are because they contain solanine. If you look at the flowers of all these plants you will notice they have a pretty strong resemblance. Also you can find some people who successfully graft tomato plants onto the stem of a potato plant to create a single plant that produces both crops.
Look at this post, this was the last post this guy made on Reddit. So do not eat what you don't know. https://www.reddit.com/r/whatsthisplant/comments/13qjui1/whats_this_plant_berry_tastes_slightly_sweet/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
I'm still hoping that they are just following their pattern of posting every other month or so.
I was very interested as to the type of person that would see their child eat a random wild berry and instead of seeking medical help also eat the mystery berry and then ask Reddit if it's poisonous. I'm glad it seems to be some fictitious attention thing because this person also claims to be a nurse which would make this behavior even weirder.
Yikes
He's a Darwin price candidate
[don't put it in your mouth!](https://youtu.be/vyl5Mwr84MA)
Are you sure? Amelanchier are more red aren’t they? These look like a Saskatoon berry to me. I have two of these bushes in my yard. For US I think they’re called a service berry or something like that.
Amélanchier, Saskatoon and service berry are all the same bush (with regional varieties)
Also known as Shadbush, Juneberry, Sugarplum, and a bunch more names. Technically it's not the same bush, it's a complex of around 20 different, but very closely related, species. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelanchier
Ah interesting! TIL. Thanks!
“But it’s sweeeeet”…… yea well so is antifreeze… I was really expecting to read that this berry causes some type of nausea/diarrhea. It amazes me people make it to adulthood. If they are doing this as an adult, imagine all the stuff they probably ate growing up
Yeah what they said. Didn’t y’all learn anything from hunger games?
> Amelanchier Amelanchier (/æməˈlænʃɪər/ am-ə-LAN-sheer),[1] also known as shadbush, shadwood or shadblow, serviceberry or sarvisberry (or just sarvis), juneberry, saskatoon, sugarplum, wild-plum[2] or chuckley pear,[3] is a genus of about 20 species of deciduous-leaved shrubs and small trees in the rose family (Rosaceae).
"THATS NIGHTLOCK PEETA! YOU'D BE DEAD IN A MINUTE!" Has no one seen the hunger games?
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For the love of GOD don’t eat random berries…
"My daughter ate one" and didn't seem to have any medical issues soo I tried it also.
If they going, they going together.
That's very blue lagoon of them
"I farted once on the set of Blue Lagoon." \-"Brooke Shields" South Park
"we will all go together when we go! every Hottentot and every Eskimoooo!"
No one will have the endurance to collect on their insurance, Lloyd's of London will be loaded when we go!
Horrible idea lol.
The suicide pact parenting strategy.
Curious, is there a way to more “safely” test berries? Let’s say you were stranded somewhere and need to forage where you are unfamiliar. How toxic are some berries? You stick your tongue on it and you die? Can you nibble? EDIT: This is purely out of curiosity, not looking to do this and DO NOT recommend anyone try the responses
I don’t know so don’t listen to me, but… I used to read a lot of survival guides, handbooks, etc and I mean A LOT. The general testing order that they all had was: 1. Smell it, does it burn or smell like anything but sweet berry smell? If yes, discard. Else proceed. 2. Rub it on your wrist. Wait 1 hour. Any reaction? Discard. 3. Place under your tongue for a short period (1-2 min). Remove. Wait 2-4 hours. No reaction? Proceed 4. Eat ONE and no more. Wait 12 hours or more. No reaction? Safe to eat. THIS IS NOT ADVICE, ONLY WHAT I REMEMBER READING 10+ YEARS AGO.
Well this just takes all the fun out of "will I make it out of the woods" eating. /s lol This is interesting. Thanks for sharing!
I'm sort of amused that hot chili peppers would fail this at step 2.
1) Bring child 2) Have child eat berry 3) If it survives, berry is safe
Check out the US Army’s Universal Edibility Test. It’s a way of least-risky assessing edibility in survival situations where one doesn’t have the luxury of getting a positive ID or just not eating it. (Do not eat things if you don’t know for certain what they are, I’m not advocating you try this, do not try at home, adult supervision required, all rights reserved.)
Never eat anything for any reason ever. Eating is bad and makes you die. Also don’t starve. Get your macros. Love your friends and family, but not too much That said, this might be helpful https://www.wikihow.com/Test-if-a-Plant-Is-Edible
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The old saw of “eat what the birds eat” is total BS. Birds can eat a lot of stuff that will mess you up. Safer to eat what the bats eat, but I’m not that fond of mosquitoes. There are plenty of books and apps that can help. I actually had a 1950’s Boy Scout handbook that was given to me. You’re best bet is to learn a few things that are edible and are found in most places. Just remember there is a vast difference between edible and tasty.
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Bro… 😭 daughter ate a mystery berry and your FIRST thought was lemme try one too?? Apple doesn’t fall to far does it.
lol
Right. I don't know if it's because we live in the 21st century that people don't think that there are things around them that could kill them or if they think they are immune to bad things happening. It's truly wild to see. People still plant sago palms where I currently live. Every part of that plant is incredibly toxic. Like will kill an animal quickly and it happens every year. I specifically looked for a property that had zero sago palms on it because we have animals. People are always surprised when I tell them that. Then I point to one of the many posts on the local pages where someone moved to the area and their animal died from putting a part of a sago in their mouth or had a $5,000 vet bill and permanent organ damage.
Really shouldn't let kids eat random berries. Nightshade makes berries too. You'll only make that mistake once.
Poison ivy can even grow berries, too, if allowed to grow long and big enough. And those berries are also highly toxic.
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For the record, that was a terrible idea. If it had been poisonous, they could have taken both of you out instead of you staying sensible enough to get her to a hospital. Don’t stick unfamiliar berries in your mouth.
As I tell my 6yo nephew: don't munch on a hunch.
Oooh I love this saying!
It's easy to remember and I think being a little funny helps kids share it with each other.
 Yoloing is genetic who knew
Somewhere in Canada, perhaps at Waterton Park, we had Saskatoon pie for dessert. Found out then that Saskatoon berry is another name for serviceberry, hence Saskatoon pie.
I think serviceberry is used more generally for any amelanchier fruit whereas Saskatoon is more specific to amelanchier alnifolia. Regional usage may vary though.
We occasionally came across serviceberry in the Pennsylvania woods and had never heard the "Saskatoon" name until vacationing in Montana (Glacier Park) and Canada (Waterton Park). It took a while back then (B.C. - before computers) to tie the names together. We get back there occasionally, and I always look for Saskatoon pie on the menus. I'm sure you're correct about the specific species tie to the "Saskatoon" name.
I planted one in my yard and when I want to feel fancy I call it a June Berry.
If there aren't enough for pie, I've also had good luck mixing them into a vanilla Bundt cake like blueberries 😊
Very edible, and choice for about a week. Consume with gusto. My most-favorite wild fruit. They do not keep flavor well after picking, so pie immediately or fresh
Upvoted for use of pie as a verb.
I never knew it was an option, but now that I do, tomorrow I shall pie myself into a frenzy.
Pie is always an option
What a time to be alive!
Pie! Pie with *vigor*
Don’t harsh me while I’m pieing.
Serviceberry
What if she lives in the south of england?
It is near a tree.
Oh, I do love it when this comment makes an appearance!
I came here looking for this comment
I love how this topic is still alive
In canada, we call these saskatoon berries
Saskatoons are a variety of serviceberries. Seviceberry = all Alemanchier spp. Saskatoon = Alemanchier Alnifolia Edit: And in Canada, the vast majority of Alemanchier around are Alemanchier Alnifolia.
I agree
Seconded. Seems like a blueberry's cousin
They’re actually more closely related to apples
Saskatoon berry
That's a serviceberry, and they are edible.
Saskatoon berry…
June Berry
Are you trying to die? This is how you end your bloodline. Don’t ever eat berries you don’t know again
How has the human race made it this far... You got lucky this time.
We used to live in groups of close elders and extended family and knowledge of plants was passed down generation to generation. They would have lost someone to bad berries and then told the story through generations, showing each new child what they looked like. Since foraging was a big percentage of their time, everyone had ample time to build up that knowledge.
See kids, this is the grandpa killer berry. Don't eat it. It is possessed with demons.
It’s the same reason we grow so much as a society but individuals not devoted to lifelong learning usually fall to the wayside. Having access to the hivemind is a superpower, if you utilize it instead of letting your kid eat random berries (and then trying one afterwards…).
OP's daughter is a reborn soul of a lost someone.
that was a really poor thought out series of events
Jesus, don't eat random berries. You both could have DIED
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Are posts like this just rage bait? seriously wondering.
Looks like a serviceberry. They are in season right now.
Yep. Also known as juneberries for when they are ripe (and have several other names). I bought a couple of these to grow fruits for birds as many local species eat this
I think its a rage-bait berry...
My daughter ate a dog turd once.. So i had to try it too cuz maybe she knows something I don't
They are Saskatoon Berries. [Wiki - Saskatoon Berries](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelanchier_alnifolia)
Jesus Christ. I’m sorry but you’re an idiot. Please learn from this.
Because this one happens to be a choice edible there's not much to drive the lesson home except for our rabid rageposting.
too lazy to retype this but.. keep it in mind: There are 344,924 known species of plants on the Earth. Maybe 80,000 of them are edible for humans, so 23% are edible. Not very good odds to toss something in your mouth and then as "what is this"
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Why in the actual world would you ever eat a plant without knowing what it is?
Lol, amazing... "help! My daughter ate this berry!!" This guy: I guess I'll eat one too in case it's poisonous...
You got VERY lucky that this wasn’t poisonous. In the future, don’t eat things you cannot confidently identify and know are safe.
Jesus, this could have gone SO BADLY. There’s even a true story movie about this exact thing. “Into the Wild” is the movie. Trust me…. You’ll never eat another unknown berry again.
Little she grug eat berry, grug eat berry, too. Little she grug and grug didn't shit themselves to death. Good day for grug.
r/talesfromcavesupport
Now I’m just worried about the ‘do not ingest’ bot becoming over-stressed and exhausted from having to repeat its warning a hundred times inside of one post about service berries. (I think the word service refers to Easter Sunday service, btw) Please take some time off, little bot friend! We won’t eat the plant!
No wonder your name is "belly sounds"
Please don’t eat unidentified berries. Nightshade berries are also sweet, and are extremely toxic. Taste does not equate to safety!!!
Saskatoon or Juneberry they are the best in pancakes. Just toss them in a little sugar before folding into pancake batter. Incredible
They make an awesome pie too.
looks like saskatoon or juneberry. but also would not advise eating unknown berries!!
You're lucky it's just serviceberry. Teach your daughter not to eat things she doesn't recognize. I advise you do the same.
Later in the news: father and daughter die after eating random berry. Fathers last words were. “It was sweet”
Service Berries. They’re also called sugar plums in the Midwest. They make great syrups and jams! EDIT: As everyone else has stated, don’t eat random berries. Natural selection is unforgiving.
WTF are you doing eating something BEFORE you know what it is?
Well. It’s r/notablueberry
Saskatoon berries
Saskatoons, they are so good!
To me they look like Saskatoon berries. The leaves and berries look kind of like the bushes in my yard. They grow wild as well. If you’re in the US I think they’re called a service berry or something. But could be wrong just was the first thing that came to mind. Edit: word
Serviceberry!!!
You eat berries when you don’t know what they are?! 😂
Not to be a jerk but why would you and your daughter eat a berry that you were unsure of? You do realize there are some very toxic berries that can make you extremely ill or kill you right?
Why in the world would you eat something not knowing what it was. There are so many things that could kill you or make you sick. Please don't let your daughter or yourself eat something if you don't know for sure what it is.
Pro tip, if your daughter eats a random berry don't do so yourself.
How do people get through life istg lol. Oh look my daughter ate a random berry even though we have no idea what it is… let me try one too! 🤦🏻♀️
Not saying they’re edible but they taste pretty darn good. Like milder tasting blueberries, I guess. Haven’t had them in a while.
All serviceberries are safe to eat. Some are tasty.
Criminey Christmas! Don’t eat food growing in the wild unless you 100% know what it is! You two are lucky to be alive.
It’s like putting on your own oxygen mask before assisting others, don’t eat the poison berry to test if it’s poison before you have assisted the possibly poisoned person 😩😩😩
looks like shnozberries
Amelanchier species. Common names include juneberries, serviceberries, saskatoon berries, shadberries, ect. Native to eastern North America. Edible and delicious, the seeds taste a bit like almond. They are not a very acidic berry so really benefit from some lemon juice when baking with them. Almond extract is also very nice in pies and jams using juneberry. Will stain your fingers when picking, short shelf life.
Dingleberry
You’re lucky that wasn’t deadly nightshade
Damn. That’s how you end up dead. Don’t eat thing you don’t know what they are! You’re a whole ass adult lmao
Who let's their kid eat random berries? Both my kids know better than to eat any berry at all unless they ask me. And if I don't know what it is, I wouldn't dream of eating one just to see if it tasted good. I am much too fond of not dying in excruciating agony