With spring comes a blanket of green, creeping plants speckled with plump, delicious looking red berries. Thank you for helping us learn more about our environment.Glad to know the difference now! As a side benefit, I was fed goat’s milk as an infant and I acquired their immunity to poison ivy. Smaller than store-bought strawberries, which are a hybrid of the wild strawberry and a European types, the berries are a preferred treat to lots of birds and animals, in addition to people. I know those are not other melons or gourds but I am always worried about food poising.Loved your text! A few hours later I was very sick. Mock Strawberries point straight up.Wild Strawberries will also have a slightly different texture than Mock Strawberries. There were several wild melons around, but we were told not to eat them because they’d make us sick. I saw what I thought was a patcwild strawberriesGlad I could help, Ron! As you said, many authors just base their information on what somebody else has written- without really doing the research for themselves. We did find wild white peaches, blueberries, blackberries, dewberries, plums, gooseberries, elderberries, mulberries, grapes, persimmons, apples, wild tomatoes, wild cherries, nuts, acorns, honeysuckle, violets, dandelion greens, poke salad, sour grass, maypops, wild onions, thorny oranges, bamboo shoots and crayfish in the little creeks and streams. They tend to be juicy and soft, while Mock Strawberries are hard, dry, and crunchy.When you bite into a Mock Strawberry, it will have a slightly bitter taste but an aftertaste that is more like a cucumber or watermelon.Both Wild Strawberries and Mock Strawberries grow along sunny banks, usually along a forest’s edge or another semi-wild area. Wild Strawberries will have a strong strawberry scent when crushed.Mock strawberries don’t smell like anything when crushed. They have taken over my flower bed I have them now in September red nice size ones small but nice.
No scent. Another name for this plant is Indian mock strawberry. If you eat one you’ll be fine, but you won’t be very impressed by the taste left in your mouth.
I hope my info helps someone out there This is what my dad taught me.
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contain more Vitamin C than an orange, and are naturally cholesterol- , fat-, and sodium-free. Our favorite berry was the dewberry that grew closer to the ground and were bigger and juicier than the blackberries. A wild strawberry looks just like the big ones you buy at the grocery store or pick at a strawberry patch but is very small. Interestingly, many types of wildlife eats it’s central portion of the flower, which is known as the receptacle. Don G. in Pa.They’re perfectly edible, but yes they have a mild ‘vegetable-ish’ flavor with a hint of berry-like scent.
A National Wildlife and Forestry Commission or Library are good places to begin.This site provided the best information I found on mock strawberries. In fact, the berries are edible … I’ve always wondered if the wild strawberries in my backyard were edible. the bad ones are small, little miniature looking. They’re not anywhere to be found! Enjoying life, and everything that has to do with self sufficient living.I have many vines covered with wild strawberries .. they are fairly large compared to a pea size and now some are turning black.. are these true wild strawberries?This was very interesting and informative.
The ones in my yard did not hang down, they were a beautiful red color, and were sweet, with a definite strawberry flavor.We’ve only ever found the mock strawberries.
They also look like they’d be nice to eat.In the past I’d heard that wild strawberries are poisonous, but I’ve been wanting to know for sure what to tell the kids about these bright berries.Up until now, I’ve just been telling them I didn’t know if they are safe, so they weren’t to put them in their mouths. We had plenty of poke growing, but my mom did not know how to prepare it! Once they take root, a new strawberry plant begins to grow, and the runners continue to spread.
Endless hours and long days of fun which could be very hard “work” and lots of good exercise with delicious benefits filled our childhood with great memories. Also, some wild gourds sprouted and grew nearby.