How to ID chokecherry fruit.
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Look at this small tree. This tree is about 5
to 6 feet tall and it is fruing right now. And these fruits right here, it’s a type of
stone fruit. This is a choke cherry. And the best time to harvest the choke cherries
is not when they’re red. It’s when they’re looking like this of black. That’s going to
be the least amount of stringen. They’re easy to harvest. The fruit pops right off.
Just like a little twist. Let’s try There’s a small little seed
right there and it’s very it’s a stone fruit. So that’s a like a stone,
but you can actually take the seed and crush it up and make like a fruit leather. And uh
that’s what the natives used to use as a food source. And I have tried it and it’s delicious.
And when you wait for the choked cherries to get very ripe and black, it will have the
full actually least amount of stringency, but still like maybe cook it or dehydrate
it to even decrease the stringency of the

2 Comments
Some people do have serious issues with their throat closing. The bark has a ton of uses. Boiling the fruit somehow destroys the problem. Poison ivy loves to companion plant.
The lethal dose for an adult human is about 10 leaves so be very careful not to include leaves in your picking. The poison is cyanide so they're very dangerous.