OT- berries

[T in NE]

Any idea what kind of berries these are? Chewed on one spit it out, couldn't recognize it. Got a couple pictures. The one has some berry guts squeezed out on my finger.

 

[Cooter143]

Looks like a Gooseberry but I'm not sure.

 

[Ron Anderson]

looks like goose berries to me too. Got stickers on the branches?

 

[Anonymous-0]

Looks very much like muscadine to me. Makes very good jelly or wine.

 

[Lawrence Ellenberger]

Those are gooseberries. The dark ones are ripe and the green ones are not ripe. For pies and cobblers you want to pick them while still green. LE

 

[CGID]

Currant and goose berry leaves look alot alike but goose berry branches don't have thorns.

 

[BIG RUH]

gooseberries

 

[john in la]

Since the OP name has "in NE" unless he is growing it in a greenhouse it can not be muscadine. Way to cold in NE for it to survive.

 

[Mike (WA)]

Leaves look like gooseberry plant, but the berries sure don't. Gooseberries are much larger, and don't turn red- stay green even when ripe, although they get a yellowish tinge when they are dead ripe.

 

[B W in MO]

That is a wild gooseberry they have stickers on the vine and turn purple when ripe, some small some large on same vine.

 

[KIP in MX]

Our black currant plants didn't have any thorns either.

 

[Dick2]

If I remember correctly, those are wild choke cherries. I used to pick both gooseberries and choke cherries when I was a kid. Those in your hand do not look like a gooseberry, which has the stripes as in the other pic.

 

[Fergienewbee]

I don't think they are choke cherries. The leaves are different and choke cherries have a pit not seeds.

Larry

 

[SweetFeet]

Wild goose berries or currants... both in the same family, I think.

Makes fantastic jam. Grandparents had them on their farm.

 

[Dachshund]

GOOSEBERRIES! They make EXCELLENT cobbler, pie, and jelly. You want to pick mostly green ones, but add a handfull of ripe ones to the mix to offset the "tart". Be sure to remove the stems, or you will have "porcupine pie" - the stems don't cook down....
If you like Rhubarb pie, you will like Gooseberry pie.

 

[Greg K]

How many hands do you have? One to hold the berries, one to hold the leaves, and one to take the picture?

 

[Anonymous-0]

defiantly gooseberries

 

[T in NE]

Thanks everyone. I don't think there's enough there to do much besides make a snack of them. Just a few small bushes on the edge of a pasture. Been trying to get some going here but I plant them according to the instructions and they all die. Sweet corn's a little yellow too, so I think a good shot of nitrogen may be needed.

I thought they looked like currants. No stickers on the branches, no hairs on the berries. But the green ones do have that striping on them.

Grandma had some currant bushes back east, but it was so long ago I can barely remember them. Us 4 grandkids would pick currants or elderberries all day and she'd make jelly out of them. Had elderberries out the backside. But both kinds of berries are all gone now, along with all the blackberries. Those were so think under the power line that my mom and aunts would cut tunnels through them to pick blackberries.

I've only been here a few years and no one I know can ID wild berries and such for me, other than mullberries. Which reminds me I want to pick some. Looks like the easiest way would be to lay out a sheet under the tree and shake branches.

I found what I think could be choke cherries last year. They aren't a much bigger than these and 3/4 of them are pit. No flavor to them at all, last year. But the mullberries were the same way the last 2 years.

Just 2 hands. Snapped off a twig, drove across the pasture to the other guy who was there spraying, who took the pics with his phone. They then went to my phone, to my email, to photobucket, to here.

 

[CGID]

I got turned around. You are correct, curants do not have thorns. Goose berrys do have thorns, aside from a few near thornless varities.

 

[GordoSD]

These are chokecherries. They are starting to call them "blackberries" for a more PC label.

 

[T in NE]

Then htf are we supposed to keep them separate from real blackberries?