🌳urban trees dropping free fruit nobody picks

street trees only, not deep-woods stuff. always id before you eat

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Mulberry (Morus)

planted everywhere as a street tree because it's tough, the fruit stains sidewalks purple every june and almost nobody picks it up

Crabapple (Malus)

too tart raw for most people, good for jelly, ripens around september

Autumn Olive

Serviceberry (Amelanchier, aka juneberry)

tastes like a cross between a blueberry and an almond, the robins usually beat you to it

Hawthorn

American Persimmon

the one people fear because unripe ones are famously awful. wait for a hard frost, when it looks half rotten on the ground is when it's good

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