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[42itous]

This post is dedicated to kdsorceress on the occasion of her birthday. (I don't know how interesting you'll find its content, but I wanted to wish you a happy day.)



Growing in a particular spot near the bikeway in East Arlington are three plants I'm not familiar with (and also pokeweed, which I know thanks to a post in this space a couple of years ago). Two I'm guessing are not edible; the third sure looks like an edible grape but the fact that there are still many, many bunches of them within easy reach suggests that other foragers know better. I offer cake and ice cream to whomever can positively identify all three. The berries and leaves are grouped in comments below.

Comments

[chocorua.livejournal.com]

#3 looks very grape-y to me. There are wild grapes all over MA, some interbred with Concord, maybe some with other cultivars. They tend to be sour, but far from fatal. What does your nose say when you crush a fruit or a leaf?

#1 looks very huckleberry-y to me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huckleberry Again, the smell of the fruit/leaves should be informative.

[42itous.livejournal.com]

I tasted the grapes! They tasted like grapes. A little sour, but a pleasant flavor. Full of seeds, though -- that would be why other foragers aren't bothering with them.

I think huckleberry plants are shrubs, not climbers. This is definitely a climber. And the leaves seem bigger than huckleberry, based on a google image search.