Panhandle Florida
Just started a produce garden, curious to see if this is something I could intentionally cultivate.
Wondering if this is edible wild blackberries/raspberries. Red ones are quite a bit firmer. Didn’t do the lip tingle thing, figured I’d just ask first lol.
by JJ_TripleTap
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Blackberry or Black Raspberry. Rubus sp. Both darken as they ripen so it’s completely normal to see younger red fruit on the same vine as mature dark fruit.
Generally if it looks like a raspberry or blackberry, it’s safe.
Get to them before the birds do.
Looks like Blackberry havent heard of noneddible versions of Blackberry just make sure no fox or other mamal urinated on it. The red ones are unripe the black ones are ripe when the come of almost effortlessly.
Dewberry. Ripe when black. Good stuff.
I believe every species in Rubus has edible fruit. They can be rather difficult to ID to a species level.
[Observations · iNaturalist](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=42&taxon_id=47544&view=species)
the blackberries are going crazy this year
The vining versions are dewberries. They tend to ripen a month or so before blackberries, which are on canes. Also slightly more acidic and less sweet than blackberries. Very edible.
Blackberries!! Yummy!!
I grew up in Pensacola, and we picked all these that we could. Native blackberries, called Dewberries. They are delicious, especially in cobbler.
Look along roadsides and fence lines , and pick all you can.
Lucky!
Looks like dewberry. If so, it’s edible. And it’s very very stabby, runs along the ground and roots on the stem, and reseeds readily.
You probably should pull it up before more berries ripen and reseed. It has thick roots that store energy and they can be surprisingly long down into the soil. I would pull it up and throw the vines into a wild area, like a ditch or roadside in a vacant lot. Some will likely root or seed there, and you can have it annually while not getting stabbed in your yard.
If this plant somehow is not super stabby, then it’s not dewberry.
Black raspberries. Yes you can eat them when purple or really close to that. Should be easy to pop off stem when ripe. Raspberries grow from seeds and from shoot runners.
Yummy
Dewberry I think
I don’t get why so many people are saying black raspberry, these are *not* black raspberry
Holy shit black raspberry. They’re so fucking good.
Look like dewberries, the sprawling sibling of the blackberry bush. Our SC backyard is lousy with them.
Weird the leaves look very different than the ones around me
Dewberries
Score!