What are these?

[ness]

14 hours ago, rps said:

100 years ago, when I was a boy, there was an old mulberry tree on the banks of a creek that is now a concrete conduit to the Arkansas river. I would stand on the earth embankment and eat berries until I was sick.

Memories, especially taste and smell stay with you forever.

 

The neighbor across the street from where I grew up had a mulberry tree in the back yard and we used to eat them too.

There are a few around here that my babies and I would eat from. Some are along a bike trail we ride and it's a mess under those trees this year. Looks to be an especially good year for them.

[budman]

We had five of them along our driveway when I was a kid. Ate thousands of them every year. My fingers and the bottom of my feet would be purple. We also would pick up hand fulls that fell to the ground and throw them at each other. I know we ruined lots of clothes during mulberry wars. The joys of being a kid.

[Gavin]

My grandmother had a mulberry tree over here back brick porch. Messy, but tasty berries, will have to check the one in my local park. The wood is supposed to be good to smoke meat with but I've never had the opportunity to try it.

[Johnsfolly]

On 6/12/2022 at 7:00 PM, BilletHead said:

                Bingo!

  Tasty when ripe and full of little bugs hard to see but I ate many bugs on them as a kid and I still eat a few.  They come in a white when ripe variety too. All wildlife like them. 

You get great bird art on your car if you park near trees with ripe mulberries😅

Picked a few on Sat. We enjoy both purple and white varieties. 

[Johnsfolly]

On 6/12/2022 at 7:09 PM, Quillback said:

Thanks guys, I have heard of mulberries but no idea what they looked like.  Dunno if I can eat on though now that you told me they are full of bugs.  😀

Think of them as high protein fruits😉