🌳urban trees dropping free fruit nobody picks

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

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

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

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