Plant Identification

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I was out trying to track some game and find some new good spots to set my snares, and I happen to stumble across these bushes. They were alot of them, and I'm always on the lookout for edibles while out in the woods, and I noticed these "berries" on the bush. When I first found them, the berries were very light green and at first I thought they could possibly be unripe blueberries. Over the past couple weeks I went back periodically to check the bushes and progress of the berries and over time they started to color. Some were red, some almost purple, but none quite a distictive blue.

I checked today, and alot of the berries had turned but none of them really looked like a real blueberry to me but I'm no botanist or anything. Alot of the berries had fallen on the ground, yet they were still a purple/red color which leads me to believe they aren't blueberries. I like to be 100% before I eat anything in the wild, and so I took a few pictures to show you guys and perhaps someone with some experience could verify the plant for me.

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Any ideas? I know blueberries also have a crown like the one in the last picture, but I'm just not sure. I tried to take pictures so you guys could see leaves, berries, stems, etc. Thanks ahead of time, guys. Here's to hoping these are blueberries. mmmm homemade blueberry pancakes.
 
Take a berry, put it in your lower front lip, squeeze just the smallest amount, if it tastes like blueberry, it probably is, but don't swallow, let it sit for 20-30 minutes.

No numbness or bitterness, eat the dang berry, wait 24 hours and try a second berry, still tasting like a blueberry?

Then it's probably a blueberry, by now all the green ones should be that much closer to being ripe and ready for eating.

This post is not medical or scientific 'fact' nor is it in any way a suggestion that you perform anything written herein, this post is for entertainment only.
 
I remember my grandma in Germany telling me
something about "no,you cant eat those,
see,they are ripe and fallen off the bush,but even the birds
havent eaten them"...
I was about 10,
true or not,Ive never forgotten that.
If I dont know what it is,I aint eatin it.
 
fugawee said:
I remember my grandma in Germany telling me
something about "no,you cant eat those,
see,they are ripe and fallen off the bush,but even the birds
havent eaten them"...
I was about 10,
true or not,Ive never forgotten that.
If I dont know what it is,I aint eatin it.
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I feel the same way. Even though these look alot like blueberries and I'm almost sure they are, I'm not 100% sure so I don't know about eating them. I tried looking at the site the other guy recommended but I couldn't figure out if it was them or not. I'll wait around and perhaps someone else will pipe in and give me a sure answer.
 
They are blueberries. Of course, I'm just some guy on the internet. Staggered leaves, floret on the bottom of the fruit. I also have 8 blueberry plants on my property. Eat them and be merry. There is no other plant that looks like that.
 
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