Probably yellow raspberries! Gently tug at the ripest one(s) to see if it lets go.
No poisonous lookalikes for compound berries (except golden seal but that's a very different looking plant)
One popped right off! And they are all yellow. I assumed that if some were green and a few others were getting pinker that they were regular raspberries. But since they are all pretty much the same color( I think you are right! Gonna eat some tomorrow :)
In Australia there’s a stinging nettle plant with bright pink berries called Gympie-Gympie that secretes an oil that is way worse than poison oak or ivy and much harder to get off your skin.
Not in the US, but leaving that here bc I think it’s neat and in case any yall take a trip down under.
Yes... however, if you can successfully remove the stinging hairs that cover the fruit (and every other part of the plant) then the little translucent fuchsia berries are reportedly edible.
Not that I would be willing to try, considering descriptions of the pain I've read.
Edit: Also, not a secreted oil, it's actually an injected fluid delivered by what amounts to hypodermic needles, except they don't have a hollow tip, the hollow stem breaks off under the skin and releases the toxins internally.
Shoot! Country and state: USA, New Jersey
Edit: thank you all for your responses! Because of location and leaves, majority rules that these are yellow/golden raspberries - a mutation of black raspberries, which I learned at in the background growing and aren’t blackberries after all! Learning everyday :)
Yeah, that looks like golden raspberries to me. You lucky duck, you.
They are supposed to be a mutation of red raspberries, but I have always found them growing in wild black raspberry patches and they taste more like black raspberries to me.
In wild plants it is very very uncommon to find everbearing varieties. Occasionally you will find a mutation in a wild population (alpine strawberries) and it is a dominant trait so it's easy to breed into new varieties, but for some reason it's unfavorable and therefore uncommon for wild plants.
I wonder if it is possible that the cultivated ones are mutations of red raspberries but that a similar mutation can also occure in black raspberries as well. Unfortunately I've never taken the time to notice if the golden raspberries I've found were on first or second year canes.
Has anyone here tried the cultivated varieties? If so, which do they taste more like, red raspberries or black?
Black Raspberries are incredibly simple. Just stick the tips of the new canes in a pot of soil and cut from the mother plant once well rooted. This vegetative process is called layering and it's one of the main ways they spread in the wild
Golden raspberries for sure they will be the sweetest when they are a deep golden yellow and will start to get plump feeling. But really any berry that's aggregate and looks just like a raspberry or blackberry is edible. Even the closest look alikes berry should be easy for anyone that's seen raspberries and black berries to tell.
Edit at least in North America
As an interesting (not in North America, but still US) note, growing up, I was familiar with four species of bramble. Two native ([ʻĀkala](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubus_hawaiensis) and [ʻĀkalakala](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubus_macraei)), plus what we called [thimbleberries](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubus_rosifolius) (and I was awfully confused when I encountered the PNW thimbleberry) and [golden raspberries](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubus_ellipticus). These are, it turns out, all radically distant from each other across the range of the genus, and in comparison, the only bramble I've encountered since that didn't resemble something somewhere between them was cloudberries. Those are *weird.* Very cool, but weird.
Could be yellow raspberries or salmonberries. Both yummy and safe to eat. Most aggregate berries in North America are edible and of the Rubus genus.
Except for goldenseal and Arisaema, which are quite toxic, but neither are found in western North America, only in eastern North America. So it depends on your location. They both range from Manitoba to Texas and eastward. The plants also look nothing like the foliage of the Rubus genus (raspberry, blackberry, dewberry, wineberry, salmonberry, cloudberry).
Interesting fact about goldenseal - it's actually becoming endangered due to over-foraging for it's rhizomes (which have a golden sap, hence the name), which are used for a multitude of medicinal purposes when processed correctly.
Same. Only ever found a few of them in the muskeg areas where I grew up in northern Alberta, along with blueberries. As kids, we mostly picked raspberries, blackberries, saskatoons, strawberries and currants for jam because they were so plentiful. Mom would always rope us kids in to help pick for jam, pies and preserves. It was often a family excursion - many hands make faster picking, although as kids we ate a fair bit, too.
But I've had cloudberry jam from IKEA ,LoL. They're apparently more plentiful in the Nordic countries and Russia.
Technically, if you're including the likes of goldenseal and dragon-root, there's also mulberries, and there are other naturalized non-native plants that are also aggregate berries and not Rubus. None that are poisonous that I can think of, though I might be missing some. None remotely resemble brambles, though.
For example, in some of the wetter areas that are subtropical, Malabar spinach has naturalized. To be fair, this means Florida, Hawaii, and a few spots around San Diego, but still.
https://preview.redd.it/49olg9h28l7d1.png?width=404&format=png&auto=webp&s=2e3d9bffbfecdd92f65f1353a767367684838a6d
Yes, it's safe to eat, though not particularly good for eating.
Each clump is actually several discreet fruit, but each fruit is a four-part aggregate.
[Che](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maclura_tricuspidata) (a Chinese relative of Osage orange, so also distantly related to mulberries) and [strawberry tree](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbutus_unedo) also come to mind.
But that's the thing, all of these are fairly superficial similarity of the fruit, not the plant.
I really can't think of anything, anywhere in the world, that can be easily mistaken for a bramble fruit, that isn't actually a member of Rubus. It's pretty hard to mistake the rose family in general, and for bramble in particular, the only case I can think of that isn't an absolute binary "yes, that's Rubus" is a false negative, specifically cloudberry. If you see flowers and fruit, and the habit (and usually thorns) of the plant itself, I'm not aware of any false positives, anywhere.
Correcting myself, as you specified North America, so the Hawaiian population of Malabar spinach doesn't count. It has been found naturalized in Mexico, though.
I’ve got a large patch of those in my yard, NW Michigan. They darken a bit to golden yellow orange when ripe (your second photo has one)
Maybe a little less sour than black raspberries but otherwise very similar
salmonberries have differently shaped leaves—they do have a triple leaf cluster like this but you can identify them bc the bottom 2 leaves form a [butterfly shape](https://botanicgardens.uw.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2021/06/IMG_1483.jpeg). they are also limited to the west coast.
I have found wild golden raspberries in Oregon too. If I remember correctly, salmonberries tend to peak in July in western Oregon (I live in California now).
salmonberries have differently shaped leaves—they do have a triple leaf cluster like this but you can identify them bc the bottom 2 leaves form a [butterfly shape](https://botanicgardens.uw.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2021/06/IMG_1483.jpeg). they are also limited to the west coast.
https://preview.redd.it/u1u7uzshhq7d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1d539006bae45714c12bba620d347bdecb261d83
Update everyone: here’s my little snack before breakfast! :)
Thank you again everyone!
Probably yellow raspberries! Gently tug at the ripest one(s) to see if it lets go. No poisonous lookalikes for compound berries (except golden seal but that's a very different looking plant)
One popped right off! And they are all yellow. I assumed that if some were green and a few others were getting pinker that they were regular raspberries. But since they are all pretty much the same color( I think you are right! Gonna eat some tomorrow :)
In Australia there’s a stinging nettle plant with bright pink berries called Gympie-Gympie that secretes an oil that is way worse than poison oak or ivy and much harder to get off your skin. Not in the US, but leaving that here bc I think it’s neat and in case any yall take a trip down under.
Of course it's in Australia! You all got much more than your share of the deadly creatures and plants!
Yes... however, if you can successfully remove the stinging hairs that cover the fruit (and every other part of the plant) then the little translucent fuchsia berries are reportedly edible. Not that I would be willing to try, considering descriptions of the pain I've read. Edit: Also, not a secreted oil, it's actually an injected fluid delivered by what amounts to hypodermic needles, except they don't have a hollow tip, the hollow stem breaks off under the skin and releases the toxins internally.
Shoot! Country and state: USA, New Jersey Edit: thank you all for your responses! Because of location and leaves, majority rules that these are yellow/golden raspberries - a mutation of black raspberries, which I learned at in the background growing and aren’t blackberries after all! Learning everyday :)
LUCKY! I’m also in NJ and I’ve never found yellow raspberries, or red raspberries, and only one cane of black raspberries.
Haha I really lucked out, it’s like I got the holy trinity of summer foraging!
These are yellow black raspberries. I live in NJ and would love a cutting if at all possible? OP DM me if you can?
Found them here in South Jersey!
Omg where in NJ? I've only ever found red berries here
I’m in Middlesex County, they grow right next to our apartments!
Yeah, that looks like golden raspberries to me. You lucky duck, you. They are supposed to be a mutation of red raspberries, but I have always found them growing in wild black raspberry patches and they taste more like black raspberries to me.
AFAIK they are a really suppose to be mutations of black raspberries. They appear identical in everything except fruit color.
Do they fruit only on floricanes like black raspberries? Most cultivated yellow raspberries fruit on primocanes, unlike black raspberries.
What is a floricane and what is a primocane? Is primocane last year’s cane or something
Primocane is a new, first year cane. Floricane is a 2 year old cane.
In wild plants it is very very uncommon to find everbearing varieties. Occasionally you will find a mutation in a wild population (alpine strawberries) and it is a dominant trait so it's easy to breed into new varieties, but for some reason it's unfavorable and therefore uncommon for wild plants.
I wonder if it is possible that the cultivated ones are mutations of red raspberries but that a similar mutation can also occure in black raspberries as well. Unfortunately I've never taken the time to notice if the golden raspberries I've found were on first or second year canes. Has anyone here tried the cultivated varieties? If so, which do they taste more like, red raspberries or black?
They are very sweet but have less raspberry flavor.
Propagate as many of those as you can!!
I wish! Propagation is something I still don’t know how to do, and I want to do it for my monstera :, )
Black Raspberries are incredibly simple. Just stick the tips of the new canes in a pot of soil and cut from the mother plant once well rooted. This vegetative process is called layering and it's one of the main ways they spread in the wild
Golden raspberries for sure they will be the sweetest when they are a deep golden yellow and will start to get plump feeling. But really any berry that's aggregate and looks just like a raspberry or blackberry is edible. Even the closest look alikes berry should be easy for anyone that's seen raspberries and black berries to tell. Edit at least in North America
As an interesting (not in North America, but still US) note, growing up, I was familiar with four species of bramble. Two native ([ʻĀkala](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubus_hawaiensis) and [ʻĀkalakala](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubus_macraei)), plus what we called [thimbleberries](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubus_rosifolius) (and I was awfully confused when I encountered the PNW thimbleberry) and [golden raspberries](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubus_ellipticus). These are, it turns out, all radically distant from each other across the range of the genus, and in comparison, the only bramble I've encountered since that didn't resemble something somewhere between them was cloudberries. Those are *weird.* Very cool, but weird.
Could be yellow raspberries or salmonberries. Both yummy and safe to eat. Most aggregate berries in North America are edible and of the Rubus genus. Except for goldenseal and Arisaema, which are quite toxic, but neither are found in western North America, only in eastern North America. So it depends on your location. They both range from Manitoba to Texas and eastward. The plants also look nothing like the foliage of the Rubus genus (raspberry, blackberry, dewberry, wineberry, salmonberry, cloudberry). Interesting fact about goldenseal - it's actually becoming endangered due to over-foraging for it's rhizomes (which have a golden sap, hence the name), which are used for a multitude of medicinal purposes when processed correctly.
Aren't cloudberries single and on the ground, not a bush? Like one berry per stem and small like a dandelion.
Yup, you're right. Not them, based on the plant. Edited to reflect that.
Cloudberries are cool though.
And they make great jam! All the Rubus varieties do.
That sounds awesome. I never thought about how they'd probably be perfect for jam. I don't think I'd find enough where I live though.
Same. Only ever found a few of them in the muskeg areas where I grew up in northern Alberta, along with blueberries. As kids, we mostly picked raspberries, blackberries, saskatoons, strawberries and currants for jam because they were so plentiful. Mom would always rope us kids in to help pick for jam, pies and preserves. It was often a family excursion - many hands make faster picking, although as kids we ate a fair bit, too. But I've had cloudberry jam from IKEA ,LoL. They're apparently more plentiful in the Nordic countries and Russia.
That sounds fun. They grow in NFLD too.
Technically, if you're including the likes of goldenseal and dragon-root, there's also mulberries, and there are other naturalized non-native plants that are also aggregate berries and not Rubus. None that are poisonous that I can think of, though I might be missing some. None remotely resemble brambles, though. For example, in some of the wetter areas that are subtropical, Malabar spinach has naturalized. To be fair, this means Florida, Hawaii, and a few spots around San Diego, but still. https://preview.redd.it/49olg9h28l7d1.png?width=404&format=png&auto=webp&s=2e3d9bffbfecdd92f65f1353a767367684838a6d Yes, it's safe to eat, though not particularly good for eating. Each clump is actually several discreet fruit, but each fruit is a four-part aggregate. [Che](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maclura_tricuspidata) (a Chinese relative of Osage orange, so also distantly related to mulberries) and [strawberry tree](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbutus_unedo) also come to mind. But that's the thing, all of these are fairly superficial similarity of the fruit, not the plant. I really can't think of anything, anywhere in the world, that can be easily mistaken for a bramble fruit, that isn't actually a member of Rubus. It's pretty hard to mistake the rose family in general, and for bramble in particular, the only case I can think of that isn't an absolute binary "yes, that's Rubus" is a false negative, specifically cloudberry. If you see flowers and fruit, and the habit (and usually thorns) of the plant itself, I'm not aware of any false positives, anywhere.
Correcting myself, as you specified North America, so the Hawaiian population of Malabar spinach doesn't count. It has been found naturalized in Mexico, though.
I’ve got a large patch of those in my yard, NW Michigan. They darken a bit to golden yellow orange when ripe (your second photo has one) Maybe a little less sour than black raspberries but otherwise very similar
I was sure its just some kind of unripe blackberry 😂 you learn every day
I cultivate native fruits on my farm and I've always wanted yellow but I haven't found it local to me yet, jealoussss!
I was also gonna guess salmon berry, but I believe that in Oregon, they're a little later in the summer, at least over here.
salmonberries have differently shaped leaves—they do have a triple leaf cluster like this but you can identify them bc the bottom 2 leaves form a [butterfly shape](https://botanicgardens.uw.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2021/06/IMG_1483.jpeg). they are also limited to the west coast.
Salmon berries are already popping off up here in WA. Thimble berries are on the way!
I have found wild golden raspberries in Oregon too. If I remember correctly, salmonberries tend to peak in July in western Oregon (I live in California now).
Eat one and check! This is probably one of the only times it’s safe!
Are they soft and ripe? Maybe a salmon berry?
OP is in New Jersey, so definitely not salmon berries. Salmon berries are usually more of an orange color as well.
salmonberries have differently shaped leaves—they do have a triple leaf cluster like this but you can identify them bc the bottom 2 leaves form a [butterfly shape](https://botanicgardens.uw.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2021/06/IMG_1483.jpeg). they are also limited to the west coast.
https://preview.redd.it/u1u7uzshhq7d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1d539006bae45714c12bba620d347bdecb261d83 Update everyone: here’s my little snack before breakfast! :) Thank you again everyone!