Today I got super excited because I thought I found a giant blackberry bush on grounds.
Well I picked one and ate it and it tasted… rather unlike a blackberry…
So I picked a big handful and ran back to the office and asked the nearest coworker – hey these are blackberries, right? RIGHT?
Turns out they were definitely mulberries.
I mean not a terrible thing to have eaten but definitely not blackberries. This is the problem when zookeepers will eat any free food they’re presented with, even when it’s still on the tree. The good news is they aren’t poisonous and I’m alive.
For future reference, blackberries are generally on spiny stems, and tend to be sort of oddly shaped. A bunch of straight stems with minimal branching. Mulberries are bushes or small trees. I grew one accidentally by using a mulberry stick to prop up a vine, and the stick decided it wasn’t ready to be dead yet and grew into an entire tree.
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