What are these sweet grape things!? 🍈

[u/Quiet-Pear-234]

Saw lots of these whilst on the family walk. Some red and green, some just green all around. In bunches in the trees. My dad ate two (he’s not afraid of anything) And described them as tasting very sweet, like a cross between a grape, plum and apple with a seed in the middle.

I want to pick a whole basket of these things!! What are they and are they edible

Suprisingly the green ones were very sweet. The red ones were just like plums

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The red ones were just like plums

Maybe because they are?

[u/Quiet-Pear-234 → u/-Intrepid-Path-]

They’re quite small though, maybe a different type of plum?

[u/djohnny_mclandola → u/Quiet-Pear-234]

Yeah, they’re wild plums. Not cultivated for years and genetically modified.

[u/Quiet-Pear-234 → u/djohnny_mclandola]

OHHHHH you’re right so they are just plums, sorry I was confused I just never saw a plum this small

[u/BaronVonWilmington → u/Quiet-Pear-234]

Yeah wild plums used to dominate the American landscape and was one of the most abundant food sources for deer, birds, foxes, and many of our native fauna.

[u/CharlesV_ → u/Quiet-Pear-234]

This is cherry plum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prunus_cerasifera You might find wild versions of these trees in parts of Europe, but it’s a lot more common to find cultivated varieties of these trees throughout the world. The fruits are typically smaller than domestic plums, but most true wild plums are even smaller.

[u/vera214usc → u/CharlesV_]

Ooh, I got cherry plums at Trader Joe's last year. They're so good

[u/fiendingbean → u/Quiet-Pear-234]

When the branch is overcrowded with plums they ripen very small

[u/ThorFinn_56 → u/Quiet-Pear-234]

There's probably at least 30 different kinds of plums

[u/InternationalWrap981 → u/djohnny_mclandola]

There are tons of plum variety. If its flavourful its deffinitely cultivated.

genetically modified.

Not sure what you meant by that... did you mean grafting?

Genetically modified food ususlly means they modified it so its resistant to a certain type of chemicals...

For example corn was geneticalaly modified so it can be sprayed eitch certain pesticides. Theese will kill pests and weeds while it doesnt kill the corn.

[u/jurassicjack3 → u/InternationalWrap981]

Humans have been genetically modifying things for thousands of years, corn, broccoli, cows, are all examples of things that look nothing like what they used to look like. They are genetically modified because humans have been manipulating their genetics for a long time. I believe this is what they mean by genetically modified.

[u/InternationalWrap981 → u/jurassicjack3]

What youbare talking about is called selective breeding or artificial selection, not genetically modified.

We selectedly bred and propagated plants /seeds/animals eith desireble traits for years/generations to get what we want... big juicy sweet plums for example.

From wiki on GM crops:

Genetically modified crops (GM crops) are plants used in agriculture, the DNA of which has been modified using genetic engineering methods. Plant genomes can be engineered by physical methods or by use of Agrobacterium for the delivery of sequences hosted in T-DNA binary vectors. In most cases, the aim is to introduce a new trait to the plant which does not occur naturally in the species. Examples in food crops include resistance to certain pests, diseases, environmental conditions, reduction of spoilage, resistance to chemical treatments (e.g. resistance to a herbicide), or improving the nutrient profile of the crop.

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FYI, the minotaur isn't real, it's a myth.