any one out there know what kind of berry these are?


They grow near here in a few different places,probably on a old farm stead as there is apple trees and also these



which look to me to be plums.who can help me out?I could collect a few gallons of these if I had enough time.

The lower pic is wild plumb.

Purple ones and red ones!

I agree, wild plums on the bottom, not sure on the top! Huckleberry???????

Top photo looks like huckleberries and the bottom photo looks like plums.

Huckleberries make wonderful pies and plums make terrific jelly.

Take a handfull of the top variety to work and leave on the break room table....(tell close friends not to eat)
....wait a day or two and you will know if they were tasty and safe.

I agree about the plums, but the top photo doesn't look like huckleberries. The fruit and leaves don't look right. The fruit should look like a big blueberry (they are in the same family). However it could be a domesticated variety.

Cut a branch with the fruit and take it to the local Extension Service or NRCS and they should be able to point you to the right name or know somebody who does. Likely if the birds haven't eaten them, there is a good reason not to try them until you know for sure.

I think the top ones look like ink berries and if thats what they i was always told they were poisonous the bottoms definatly look like the plums

I looked long and hard on the ole internet for the top picture with no luck. The bottom one sure fits the description as many above have stated - wild plum. Here's a description from
University of Minnesota Extension :

"Wild Plum
(Prunus americana)

This is a shrub or small tree growing from 3 to 20 feet high. It is found in thickets, along roadsides,pastures, riverbanks, and old farmsteads. The fruit has a sub-acid flavor, is round, red or yellow, and 1/2 inch to 1 inch in diameter. It ripens in August and September. It is used for sauce, pies, jelly, and preserves."

I have fired off an email to the local extension office, here in farmington.I will post up when I find out what kind it is.
The plum tree and the other berry tree,grow right next to each other.I would guess they were planted,at some point in time.

The top one looks like Nannyberry, a Viburnum. If so, the berries are edible and make nice jam.

The bottom one is a wild plum, also a good wild fruit.

If the ones in the top photo grow on a bush I would not eat them until I found out for sure what they were. As a child growing up I was always told they were poisonous by my grandfather and dad. Of course thats in my part of the country.

The extension agent is off till next week.
riding around on the bicycle, and looking,I see there are hundreds of these tree/bushes around with these berrys on them. literally Hundreds .

The extension agent just got back to me on the berry....it is buckthorn,a very invasive plant.

Its a good thing you didn't listen to me and make a pie out of those berries. Goes to show you have to be careful about what you eat in the wild.

It's a listed Noxious weed in many states. Good thing you didn't eat any! My internet search states the berries contain a laxative. This ensure that the seeds will be dispensed everywhere by birds.

I hate to tell you, but that top photo of the dark berries are BUCKTHORN. Considered Invasive and considered undesirable and quite hard to eradicate.

The others are plums.

your very good,AJ,but a little late.

I would take a branch into the local garden store and see what they think.

If it is a buckthorn, I don't see any thorns.

Is it a small tree like a chokecherry? Looks similar.

yes it is a smaller tree.they are everywhere I look.Now that they have fruit,they are very easy to see.
The county agriculture department id'ed it as buckthorn.