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mulberries
The two berries I used to pick and eat as a kid were mulberries and black raspberries (a different fruit from blackberries--we had no blackberries where I grew up but plenty of black raspberries). Black raspberries grow on prickly canes, and you can find them in abandoned lots and beside railroad tracks. I was a pro at finding places to pick them.
Mulberries grow on trees. When I was a kid, there was a copse of three or so sapling-sized mulberry trees on my street, at the edge of someone's property, and we used to walk by them and pick the berries off. Not as flavorful as black raspberries, but pleasantly sweet.
Now all but one of those mulberry trees is gone, but that one tree! It's huge. The berries are waaaay up high, out of reach, but I saw a mourning dove enjoying them. And they fall from those high, high branches down to the street.
grand mulberry tree

mulberries

These berries, though, come from a different tree, across the way. You can see below that the berries on this tree are more in reach ;-) (I don't recall this tree from when I was a kid--I think we just preferred being on the other side of the street for our collecting.)
the tree across the way

Mulberries grow on trees. When I was a kid, there was a copse of three or so sapling-sized mulberry trees on my street, at the edge of someone's property, and we used to walk by them and pick the berries off. Not as flavorful as black raspberries, but pleasantly sweet.
Now all but one of those mulberry trees is gone, but that one tree! It's huge. The berries are waaaay up high, out of reach, but I saw a mourning dove enjoying them. And they fall from those high, high branches down to the street.
grand mulberry tree

mulberries

These berries, though, come from a different tree, across the way. You can see below that the berries on this tree are more in reach ;-) (I don't recall this tree from when I was a kid--I think we just preferred being on the other side of the street for our collecting.)
the tree across the way

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Do you have any white mulberries where you live, or just the red ones?
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I never tasted a mulberry or a black raspberry in my life, but they both sound enticing.
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It is such a beautiful tree!
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Last year one of my friends pointed out a series of serviceberry trees to me, and now when they're ripe I like to eat a few just because I know I can.
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Of course, I knew about adults unhappy with the berry stains and bird feces concomitant to mulberries from early on.
We had black raspberries and blackberries in our yard and neighborhood. Bliss. The large humped blackberries were also major butterfly Mecca, en route to the milkweed field.
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My partner S loves them. I think I may have found a good tree where he can pick them the next time he's in town during mullberry season.
One of these days, in my copious free time (ha!), I'd love to go pick black raspberries. From what I understand, there's a bunch along the bike path between Albany and Delmar. In the meantime I have some red raspberries in my small backyard garden plot. Yum!
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This drug website on the internet said that if you eat a bunch of little mulberry leaves you'll get very high. I ate mulberry leaves all day and that did not happen. The internet lied to me.
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My grandparents had gooseberries. Have you ever had those?
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