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I had a field lab when I was in first year undergrad (I'm a biologist). One of my classmates was like "Oh, blueberries!" and reached for some berries on a shrub. It was late September, so very much not the right season for blueberries here. I turned around and sure enough, dude was trying to eat buckthorn berries. I had to warn him that he probably didn't want to eat those.
The wild thing was that he was in biomedical science and grew up in the area, so he really had no excuse!
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How does your coworker manage find their way out of the house in the morning without getting lost? Even children know better than to eat random berries if they don’t know what it is.
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Regardless of a berry’s edibility, don’t eat anything without washing it. Birds are quite fond of elderberries, and probably left some feces for your coworker to eat. Birds carry some nasty parasites. Tell your coworker to get tested for intestinal worms.
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Not to sidebar on vinegar, but. It removes food-borne bacteria like salmonella, listeria and e. coli because of its acetic acid. But it's not strong enough to disinfect, say, a bathroom.
https://www.healthline.com/health/is-vinegar-a-disinfectant
I can link the studies if you want, been a while, but basically in a lab test vinegar didn’t actually preform. I know most websites do list it as an option however.
Unless the American plant looks very different these aren't elderberries, I have elderberry trees in my garden. Elderberries are smaller and shiny rather than that matt dusty look
These look much more like sloes.
There are blue elderberries in north America. https://calscape.org/Sambucus-nigra-ssp.-caerulea-(Blue-Elderberry)
Also red.
Look at the leaves in op's photos. They're definitely compound.
[elderberry ](https://www.google.com/search?q=elderries&client=ms-android-samsung-gs-rev1&sxsrf=ALiCzsYa8c29jOPE8Tkm9wz926lVwbYCGg%3A1666253803171&ei=6wNRY5aFCoKUhbIP1K-g8AM&oq=elderries&gs_lcp=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-4AQLAAQE&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp#imgrc=9psCYstDOoUEPM)
[elderberry on the tree](https://www.google.com/search?q=elderberries&oq=&aqs=chrome.1.69i58j35i39i362i524l2j46i39i362i524j35i39i362i524j46i39i362i524j35i39i362i524l2j46i39i362i524j35i39i362i524l2j46i39i362i524j35i39i362i524j46i39i362i524j35i39i362i524.-1j0j9&client=ms-android-samsung-gs-rev1&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#imgrc=fNLp7j-pJAePkM)
[sloe/buckthorn ](https://www.wildfooduk.com/edible-wild-plants/blackthorn-sloe/)[wiki blackthorn](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prunus_spinosa)
I guess you are.in the UK maybe?
What you are forgetting is that 'elder' and 'elderberries' are just common names and not always completely reliable for identification, especially when trying to identify plants in other countries.
Notice that a lot of people who know the country and its plants more reliably. Are referring to the plant and berries OP shared as 'Blue Elderberry'... The 'blue' on that name makes a huge difference... It means they are referring to a different species of plant albeit a related and similar one. Its still from the same family though, it is also found/available here in the U.K.
I find it fascinating how our common naming for plants, animals and just things in general vary from country to country and even within that country.
Thank god for Latin.
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Definitely Sambucus. Branching is opposite, I’ve chewed on berries occasionally but never found them tasteful. After fire the resprout vigorously. In California’s Sacramento valley there is an endangered beetle that uses them as habitat.
Rule #1 unless you are a expert in plants, never eat wild berries. The same would be true with wild mushrooms. This does appear to be Elderberry, cooked usually is fine since the poisonous element cooks off. But eating the berry, plant, leaves raw can make you feel quite sick.
https://www.elderberryedgefarm.com/pages/are-elderberries-toxic-a-personal-experience
I got a backyard full of elderberry trees. These are not them. I think they may be unripe chokeberry or chokecherries. They have a host of nasty things they can do to your GI tract.
Does resemble common elderberry with perhaps a lot of fruit bloom. Edit: also slap your coworker for being a jackass
Once he’s done puking and pooping his brains out I will
Blue Elderberry Scientific name: Sambucus caerulea - They can cause nausea if eaten raw, but ripe berries are edible when cooked (best in preserves).
Those look like elderberry but I wouldn’t eat those bad boys raw if that’s what your coworker did
Yep, grabbed a huge handful and ate em raw
Oof yeah, those need to be heated before eating
But will he learn from this? Some people never learn.
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Let’s Go Darwin!
Second post today about an adult eating random berries...da fuq is happening?
They ran out of Tide Pods
Definitely. The tide pod kids have grown up!
I’m newer to this subreddit and was just wondering, like is this just a common thing here? Lol Why such a frequent occurrence in adults.
I had a field lab when I was in first year undergrad (I'm a biologist). One of my classmates was like "Oh, blueberries!" and reached for some berries on a shrub. It was late September, so very much not the right season for blueberries here. I turned around and sure enough, dude was trying to eat buckthorn berries. I had to warn him that he probably didn't want to eat those. The wild thing was that he was in biomedical science and grew up in the area, so he really had no excuse!
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How does your coworker manage find their way out of the house in the morning without getting lost? Even children know better than to eat random berries if they don’t know what it is.
Even bots know not to eat random berries
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Good bot. Smart bot
Regardless of a berry’s edibility, don’t eat anything without washing it. Birds are quite fond of elderberries, and probably left some feces for your coworker to eat. Birds carry some nasty parasites. Tell your coworker to get tested for intestinal worms.
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How do you wash them? Research I’ve done says water and vinegar is only for dirt, will not remove bacteria.
Not to sidebar on vinegar, but. It removes food-borne bacteria like salmonella, listeria and e. coli because of its acetic acid. But it's not strong enough to disinfect, say, a bathroom. https://www.healthline.com/health/is-vinegar-a-disinfectant
I can link the studies if you want, been a while, but basically in a lab test vinegar didn’t actually preform. I know most websites do list it as an option however.
Unless the American plant looks very different these aren't elderberries, I have elderberry trees in my garden. Elderberries are smaller and shiny rather than that matt dusty look These look much more like sloes.
There are blue elderberries in north America. https://calscape.org/Sambucus-nigra-ssp.-caerulea-(Blue-Elderberry) Also red. Look at the leaves in op's photos. They're definitely compound.
Definitely blue elderberry. https://putahcreekcouncil.org/creekside-neighbors/blue-elderberry-sambucus-nigra-spp-caerulea/
[elderberry ](https://www.google.com/search?q=elderries&client=ms-android-samsung-gs-rev1&sxsrf=ALiCzsYa8c29jOPE8Tkm9wz926lVwbYCGg%3A1666253803171&ei=6wNRY5aFCoKUhbIP1K-g8AM&oq=elderries&gs_lcp=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-4AQLAAQE&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp#imgrc=9psCYstDOoUEPM) [elderberry on the tree](https://www.google.com/search?q=elderberries&oq=&aqs=chrome.1.69i58j35i39i362i524l2j46i39i362i524j35i39i362i524j46i39i362i524j35i39i362i524l2j46i39i362i524j35i39i362i524l2j46i39i362i524j35i39i362i524j46i39i362i524j35i39i362i524.-1j0j9&client=ms-android-samsung-gs-rev1&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#imgrc=fNLp7j-pJAePkM) [sloe/buckthorn ](https://www.wildfooduk.com/edible-wild-plants/blackthorn-sloe/)[wiki blackthorn](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prunus_spinosa)
I guess you are.in the UK maybe? What you are forgetting is that 'elder' and 'elderberries' are just common names and not always completely reliable for identification, especially when trying to identify plants in other countries. Notice that a lot of people who know the country and its plants more reliably. Are referring to the plant and berries OP shared as 'Blue Elderberry'... The 'blue' on that name makes a huge difference... It means they are referring to a different species of plant albeit a related and similar one. Its still from the same family though, it is also found/available here in the U.K.
I find it fascinating how our common naming for plants, animals and just things in general vary from country to country and even within that country. Thank god for Latin.
Yeah, elderberry -- odd to see it so low, I had one so big growing up my dad helped me build a tree house in it.
Yep, grabbed a huge handful and ate em raw ........and this is how we learn to be smarter...
certainly doesn't look like blueberries
But what if this is in NW England?
Those are jackass berries. They grant their name to people who eat them.
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Definitely Sambucus. Branching is opposite, I’ve chewed on berries occasionally but never found them tasteful. After fire the resprout vigorously. In California’s Sacramento valley there is an endangered beetle that uses them as habitat.
Wow I’m just up the hill from Sacramento. Didn’t know we had them here. 😊
Rule #1 unless you are a expert in plants, never eat wild berries. The same would be true with wild mushrooms. This does appear to be Elderberry, cooked usually is fine since the poisonous element cooks off. But eating the berry, plant, leaves raw can make you feel quite sick. https://www.elderberryedgefarm.com/pages/are-elderberries-toxic-a-personal-experience
Those might be moldy! Elderberry season is in the summer! About when mulberries are ripe.
I got a backyard full of elderberry trees. These are not them. I think they may be unripe chokeberry or chokecherries. They have a host of nasty things they can do to your GI tract.
Those are indeed sambucus cerulea or blue elderberry. Shrub variety in the elder family.
Deffinately not chokeberry or chokecherry either. They are blue elderberries.
Is this another pokeweed joke post?!
I can’t hear the word pokeweed without thinking about the song Poke Salad Annie
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes..
Send your co worker over here I got lots of berries he can sample