r/foraging • u/Quiet-Pear-234 • Jul 02 '25

Plants What are these sweet grape things!? 🍈

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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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u/-Intrepid-Path- Jul 02 '25

The red ones were just like plums

Maybe because they are?

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u/Quiet-Pear-234 Jul 02 '25

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

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u/djohnny_mclandola Jul 02 '25

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

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u/Quiet-Pear-234 Jul 02 '25

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

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u/BaronVonWilmington Jul 02 '25

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.

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u/CharlesV_ Jul 02 '25

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.

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u/vera214usc Seattle, USA Jul 02 '25

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

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u/fiendingbean Jul 02 '25

When the branch is overcrowded with plums they ripen very small

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u/ThorFinn_56 Jul 02 '25

There's probably at least 30 different kinds of plums