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Look at what I found growing on campus where I work

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I spotted a wild blackberry (dewberry whatever the hell you wanna call them. I found them, so for this story they are wild blackberries) vine growing inside of a lantana flower bed a few weeks ago, but it had no fruit yet. Today I was walking back over there and along a path i walked a million times i saw a tiny red dot. I thought it was a flower, but the vine it was near shouldn't have red flowers. So I went and inspected. Sure enough, it was a tiny red blackberry. So i started looking around and i found them growing in 4 separate places. Picked a few, didn't wanna be a dick and bogart the whole cache of snackables.

Red one that caught my eye:

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More growing in a median in near the parking lot:

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My haul (minus the 10 or so i scarfed down on the way up the stairs):

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Still lots of ripe ones left for later. If they're still there next week I'm snatching more.
 
millworkman said:
Bad ass Tx, what about that hab plant in the nudist compound?
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Lol haven't been back there in awhile, I'll have to check on it soon. I imagine it's still there, it made it through all the freezes we had.
 
Am I just paranoid about finding fruits/edibles in public places? I mean you don't really know if the area is being treated or contaminated in any way? I guess they're supposed to put up warning flags but those only last a couple days. This is really a question and a bit of information on how I think lol.
 
FiveSix said:
Am I just paranoid about finding fruits/edibles in public places? I mean you don't really know if the area is being treated or contaminated in any way? I guess they're supposed to put up warning flags but those only last a couple days. This is really a question and a bit of information on how I think lol.
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We used to tear mulberry trees and plants apart when my friends and i were growing up in and around Asbury and Long Branch and we never worried one bit about that kind of stuff. Anytime we were out riding our bikes if we found a plant(or a tree - my parents had a huge one in the back yard) we'd bogart all the fruit off of it.
 
FiveSix said:
Am I just paranoid about finding fruits/edibles in public places? I mean you don't really know if the area is being treated or contaminated in any way? I guess they're supposed to put up warning flags but those only last a couple days. This is really a question and a bit of information on how I think lol.
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The company i work for is all about being "green" in fact, I'm on the grounds committee for our Green Team. One of our goals was to work with our landscaping company to ensure that everything is as minimally invasive as possible. Including no harmful herbicides/pesticides. We have very little in the way of actual "grass" most is just wild flowers and wild grass and other native plants that require no irrigation.

Also, we just got our campus certified as a wildlife habitat with the National Wildlife Foundation :)


I'll have to get more pics of the campus up for you guys to see.
 
FiveSix said:
Am I just paranoid about finding fruits/edibles in public places? I mean you don't really know if the area is being treated or contaminated in any way? I guess they're supposed to put up warning flags but those only last a couple days. This is really a question and a bit of information on how I think lol.
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or to be even more pessimistic, if a passing canine lifted his leg in their general direction.... :P:lol:
 
so i was right they are brambles!!!!!!!!!!
as kids when we were out playing/messing aroundif we ever felt peckish we'd munch these or if we felt more peckish we'd hit folks apple trees or what ever else they were growing!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
I love blackberries/brambles (how do the Aussies call them?) but I don't like concrete berries or muffler berries.
 
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