[OC] It’s not always pokeweed, actually: Berry ID posts to /r/berries by month
August 18, 2024
[OC] It’s not always pokeweed, actually: Berry ID posts to /r/berries by month
Posted by hyouko
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I created this mostly through the power of boredom and Google Sheets, after seeing the latest post on r/Berries linking to r/itsalwayspokeweed . Turns out, pokeweed isn’t the most commonly posted “what is this berry” – or even the second most common, as that honor goes to blackberries. It is the most common specifically in August, though, beating out Oregon Grapes for first place in this month.
Other popular berries that didn’t quite make the cut here include many variations on nightshades (some edible, some _very_ not edible), wineberries (edible, along with basically every other drupelet-type berry that grows in North America – watch out for goldenseal as the one sort-of lookalike that’s _not_ edible, though), mock strawberries (edible but tasteless), and buckthorns (leave them for the birds). My favorite berries, black raspberries, are _way_ down the list, with only 2 posts.
As I noted on the visual itself, please don’t go eating random berries without getting an expert ID first – many of them are toxic, some of them are merely deeply unpleasant (Guelder Rose, for instance, described as smelling of “musty socks” and “urine and vomit”).
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I created this mostly through the power of boredom and Google Sheets, after seeing the latest post on r/Berries linking to r/itsalwayspokeweed . Turns out, pokeweed isn’t the most commonly posted “what is this berry” – or even the second most common, as that honor goes to blackberries. It is the most common specifically in August, though, beating out Oregon Grapes for first place in this month.
Other popular berries that didn’t quite make the cut here include many variations on nightshades (some edible, some _very_ not edible), wineberries (edible, along with basically every other drupelet-type berry that grows in North America – watch out for goldenseal as the one sort-of lookalike that’s _not_ edible, though), mock strawberries (edible but tasteless), and buckthorns (leave them for the birds). My favorite berries, black raspberries, are _way_ down the list, with only 2 posts.
As I noted on the visual itself, please don’t go eating random berries without getting an expert ID first – many of them are toxic, some of them are merely deeply unpleasant (Guelder Rose, for instance, described as smelling of “musty socks” and “urine and vomit”).