Did you know that plums grow in the wild? I had no idea before I started foraging! This is an American plum thicket (Prunus americana) that I check on every year! Last year, a freeze wiped out the blossoms and there was no fruit. :( this year, it has already fruited by the time this freeze is coming up so hopefully they’ll make it. Did you know North America had wild plums like this? #foraging #prunus #americanplum #wildplum #botany #plantidentification #wildfood #wildfruit | Feral Foraging

Chickasaw plum (Prunus angustifolia) is one of my favorite native wild fruits. I would love to see this tree being planted more ornamentally as its blooms are stunning, its fruit is delicious, and it is a host to many native moths and butterflies including the tiger swallowtail! Have you ever found a wild plum before? #foraging #nature #plantidentification #botany #prunus #prunusangustifolia #plum #wildplum | Feral Foraging

There is a bit of a range overlap of American plum (Prunus americana) and Chickasaw plum (Prunus angustifolia). American plum has more of a northern range and Chickasaw plum more of a souther range.Angustifolia, the species name for Chickasaw plum, means narrow-leaved which was one of the details we used to distinguish them! Additionally, the margins are typically more sharply serrated in American plum than Chickasaw plum.We get ripe Chickasaw plum fruit in May in Alabama, but I believe that Ame

I was pretty thrilled to find my first ripe American plums (Prunus americana) of the season the other day outside Boulder, Colorado. They are quite terrible underripe, but quite delicious once the fruit has some give. I learned a bit about judging ripeness from a friend some years back—look for plums that have just started dropping to the ground. You can pick them up from the ground and from the tree. If gathering from the tree, they should be dropping at the slightest touch. That said, if you g

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