Poison blackerry
Is there anything out that that looks like a blackberry but is poisonous? I found these wild and wonder if I can eat them in Mississippi http://m.imgur.com/a/Vgomt
Posted May 1, 2017, 9:13 PM UTC
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Eat those blackberries before someone else beats you to them!
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Nope dewberry
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Those are wild blackberries.
The plants with look-a-likes you need to worry about are primarily wild beans and nightshades (tomatoes, etc). Some people also say poke berry... but pokeweed looks like nothing you'd ever eat, I wouldn't even agree with the assessment that it looks like beautyberry, as it really doesn't.
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Nope dewberry
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Most of the "blackberries" in your region are actually dewberries, Rubus trivialis, aka the wild blackberry, southern blackberry, southern dewberry - depending on where you live and who you ask.
Again, it's edible - it's not a "poison blackerry (sp)".
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Those definitely look like blackberries to me
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Nope dewberry
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Nothing poisonous looks like blackberries. Those are blackberries.
Nope dewberry
Myself and 4 other posters disagree with you. Rather than just posting "Nope dewberry" on 4 comments why don't you put some effort into things and explain why you think either dewberries are poisonous, or what we all know to be blackberries are dewberries?
Dewberries are certainly NOT poisonous! I don't want anyone to miss out on those little drops of heaven. They are mostly wild, and sometimes even considered a nuisance (by crazy people that hate delicious things). Dewberries are related to blackberries. Many people pick them and make jams, cobblers, etc. Not the OP, just want everyone else to love dewberries... as long as you promise to leave some for me. :)
Yes I know that. My complaint was campassi's two word comment leaves it unclear whether he was saying that dewberries were an example of a poisonous plant that looks like blackberries or that the plant in question was a dewberry not a blackberry.
And truthfully the look so much alike and are so closely related its not worth separating them most the time.
My apologies, I typed everything from a mobile device.
They are not poisonous, they are dewberries.