Native Tree Fruit.

[fantasymaker]

What kind of native tree fruit grows in your area?
Here in mid Il we have persimons and paw paws.

[rags57078]

plum , mulberry

[Danaus29]

Pawpaws

[Old Vet]

Peaches,Mulberry, Permissions, Pawpaws,Apple, plums and some others.

[Pops2]

if bymy area you mean an hour drive into the mountains then, pine nuts & mountain ash.

[jwal10]

There were a lot of homesteads started here in the 20's when loggers moved in to harvest the BIG timber, they planted all sorts of fruit and nut trees and berries then the birds carried the seeds and every fence row has been taken over with them. I find the best for my use and graft them into other trees that have poorer fruit qualities. I still find prunes and hops, strawberries, black and raspberries. This also goes for feed crops for animals, hairy vetch, peas and grasses. My wild rice was found in a swamp, peppermint, spearmint. There are a lot of native fruits also....James

[motdaugrnds]

We have found wild strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, grapes, pawpaws, black cherries & passion flowers here on our little 6 acres.

[JuliaAnn]

Specifically TREE fruit? Native persimmon, wild plum, paw paw, several of the hawthornes such as mayhaw, parsley hawthorne, green hawthorne and a couple others; mulberries, black walnut, native pecan, several kinds of hickories the most edible of which is the shagbark hickory; and the very rare and very localized southern crabapple Malus angustifolia of which we are fortunate to have a few; farkleberry, b;ack cherry, and the non-native but naturalized, escaped loquat which you find in the strangest places, much further north than you'd think they would survive.

There are numerous herbaceous shrubs that have edible fruit too; blackberry, dewberry, turk's cap, saw palmetto, date palms (greedy squirrels WILL attack people trying to harvest dates) muscadines and wild grapes (different from muscadines) passionfruit/maypop; and probably others I can't think of right now.

[GrannyG]

We have native pecan, wild persimmon, lots of wild plums around, red and yellow ones,mulberries in the yard, my neighbor shares her crab apples.

[Sanza]

Saskatoons, choke cherry and pin cherry, highbush cranberry, then there's the wild gooseberries and raspberries and all the different ground berries

[Bearfootfarm]

Plums, Persimmons, Mulberries, Hickory Nuts, Blackberries, Grapes

[naturelover]

These fruits all grow wild here: bitter cherry, chokecherry, black hawthorn, western crabapple, wild apple, wild pears, wild plums, wild grapes, western hazlenut, western walnut, elderberry, huckleberry, blueberry, salmonberry, thimbleberry, raspberry, blackberry, rose hip, Oregon grape, saskatoon berry, cranberry, salal berry, service berry, strawberry, gooseberry, black current.

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[Maura]

Native, or naturalized? I planted highbush cranberries and they are doing very well, got two batches of jelly this week. Well, I had to add some sugar and cook the berries down first. Native, we have fox grapes.

[oregon woodsmok]

Juniper berries.

You can make gin out of them, and I suppose if the alcohol content is high enough, you won't care if it tastes awful.

[Oldcountryboy]

Persimmon, peaches, plum, cherry, mulberry, kawberry, possum grapes, passion fruit, huckleberry, ground cherry, strawberry, blackberry, dewberry, elderberries.

That's about all I can think of for around here. But not sure how many of them are true native species. Peach trees? Apple trees? I think they were both brought over by European settlers. But not sure!

[julieq]

I don't think we have any native fruit trees here in the southern Idaho high desert. About the only 'living' native thing I'm pretty sure is sagebrush!

[lonelyfarmgirl]

lots, apples pear, plum, mulberry, hawthorn, a dozen kinds of nuts. those are native. plenty of other non native tree fruits grow here too.

[Maura]

Non native would be apple, peach, orange, plum, cherry, you know, most of the fruits you love.

[CarolT]

JuliaAnn, where are loquats further north than you think they'd make it? And do they ever bear? I love loquats and so wish I could grow them here!

Black cherries, crabapple, pecans, hickories, not sure if black walnuts are native? Maypops, muscadines, wild strawberries, southern dewberries, huckleberries, elderberries, persimmons. Sugarplums, also known as shadberries, but try getting any from the wildlife.

[Tracy Rimmer]

SW Manitoba, we have chokecherries, wild plums, saskatoonberries, serviceberries, hawthorne, pin cherries, buffaloberries, and hazelnuts. Lots of other wild fruit and bush-type berries, but these are really the only "tree" type fruits growing wild.