Are Those Berries Poisonous!? Choke Cherry Description
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Choke cherry or chokecherry - Prunus virginiana
Chokecherry Is Edible
Choke cherries looks pretty poisonous, but are they? The short answer is yes! The leaves, wood, bark, and pits are all poisonous, but the flesh of the fruits are edible. Chokecherries are edible raw and are red or crimson colored earlier in the season and get very dark in colour almost black later in the season. When they are very dark they get better in flavour. The choke cherry fruit is edible and pretty good. It can be eaten raw or cooked and is good in jam or jelly.
Chokecherry Identification
Look for leaves that are oval shaped with toothed edges that come to a pointed tip.
Please consume wild plants at your own risk! Consult multiple reliable sources before consuming any wild plants! This video is for information and entertainment only!
References
MacKinnon, A. Edible and Medicinal Plants of Canada. Lone Pine Media Productions (BC) Ltd. 2014.
Parish, R.; Coupe, R.; and Lloyd, D. Plants of the Inland Northwest and Southern Interior British Columbia. BC Ministry of Forests and Lone Pine Publishing. 2018
There's lots more info about chokecherries here!
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chokecherries make AMAZING wine. my mom and grandpa both make them, and its pretty great. They are super easy to pick later in the season as well; very visible and big bunches, and they come off super easily if ripe enough.
That sounds great! I haven't tried it yet, but I'd like to.
Good to know. I have a tree that just appeared out of nowhere in our backyard. I'm gonna make Chokecherry Mead.
Actually making some chokecherry jam right now
Nice! I hope it turns out!
I used to eat these as a kid all the time, and probably didn't spit out the seeds all the time, the thing I enjoyed was they made my throat feel like it was going to choke off. That's why they call them Choke Cherries.
I guess you made it through just fine! Thank you!
I'm surprised I made it this far, my childhood was Wild and Free in nature!💗🌎💗
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Most people make jams, jellies, and syrups out of these
Yes, I agree.
cool
Thanks!
Noice just harvested some. Definitely threw me back by how bad they tasted, this early in the season at least. Making jelly to fix the “this tastes poisonous” situation.😂
Excellent! I hope it turns out!
So chokecherries just taste like really underripe cherries.
If you're getting kind of a chemically, medicinal, "I need to spit this out" taste, you probably have either pin cherries, or bittercherry. Choke cherries are never seen through, and ripen black, bitter cherries are see through and ripen red.
Another way you can tell the difference is pincherries and bitter cherries have red juice, while choke cherries have yellow green juice
Made choke cherry jam just yesterday!
Nice! Sounds good.
I get so addicted to these stupid things every summer that I'm literally anxiously waiting for them to ripen every year now
are they?? only one way to find out, down the hatch
Or a 15 second Google search
Or 2 brain cells
That's one way to do it!
@@FreddyFazbearYo so many options!
I thought you were going to say no! Are they poisonous for birds and other animals? 🙏🕊️😊🦉
Birds definitely eat them!
I believe pincherries look similar to this
You can eat the seeds, if you do it properly and modestly. In fact once youve nuturalized the cyanic acid it just adds
to your benefit, done properly it can be used as medicine aswell as increase the calorie count of the food. Making it good shelf food for the winter months. And it gets so yummy when dried. Super super cool plant. But at the end of the day trust only your gut on if your gonna eat it or not.
Good advice. Thank you!
@@OkanaganGardenerandForager I learned about these berries from a native buddy. I believe he sun dried them once the whole mixture was pulverized. It is a strong astringent berry so its got a drying feeling to it and not much is needed in any diet anyway.
It's nice to have if you are feeling excess heat during winter months. But the other foods you eat with it are even more important. In this case other (sweet tasting foods) such as apples and moist grains like white rices, along with (bitter foods) like leafy greens, turmeric, herbs, etc... I hope this was usefull.
Have a good one.
@@Eden894HisBiome thank you! I think it's useful. There's so much to learn about how our diet affects our heath.