🌳urban trees dropping free fruit nobody picks
street trees only, not deep-woods stuff. always id before you eat
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1
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
2
Crabapple (Malus)
too tart raw for most people, good for jelly, ripens around september
3
Autumn Olive
4
Serviceberry (Amelanchier, aka juneberry)
tastes like a cross between a blueberry and an almond, the robins usually beat you to it
5
Hawthorn
6
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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