This was found in my backyard, southeastern VA. Just curious what it is. My kids found them and thought they were strawberries, and I told them not to eat things they find. Luckily they didn’t, but just trying to get an ID on it.
by Accomplished-Door366
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Looks like a wild strawberry. Taste it, you can always spit it out
Arbutus unedo?
It’s a faux strawberry. I had a patch on the side of my home. Googled using lens and it identified it. Non poisonous, every thing I read, they grow in yards in the south and taste like wet grass, no one found them good to eat.
Looks somewhat like Potentilla indica, mock strawberry.
Its a berry for ants r/thingsforants!
Mock/faux strawberry. Edible, tasteless, mostly seed. Not harmful if eaten, just doesn’t taste anything like strawberries. The darker ones are slightly sweet but they usually just taste like grass water.
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