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What happened to the wild plum bushes? Haven't seen any in a long time.
Posted on 6/5/24 at 5:50 pm
Posted on 6/5/24 at 5:50 pm
I may have asked this on here before, but I don't think I got an answer.
Used to find them everywhere. I always loved them.
Used to find them everywhere. I always loved them.
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Posted on 6/5/24 at 5:56 pm to auggie
Decline in habitat. Plums are generally grassland species. They don't like shade, or mowing for the most part. Conversion to "improved" pasture or woody invasion of native grasslands are a huge reason for the loss or decline of many species.
This post was edited on 6/5/24 at 5:57 pm
Posted on 6/5/24 at 7:33 pm to Cowboyfan89
It seems like I see a lot of boxwood shrubs where plums used to be.
Posted on 6/5/24 at 8:46 pm to auggie
You can thank Japanese honeysuckle, Bradford pear, and other invasive thicket species for the downtrend of wild plum.
Posted on 6/5/24 at 11:20 pm to LegendInMyMind
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You can thank Japanese honeysuckle, Bradford pear, and other invasive thicket species for the downtrend of wild plum.
I think this is it.
, You know what?
Today, I'm over helping my neighbor, and we are in his kitchen for lunch.
His wife brings me these things called Ranier Cherries, she loves the way they taste, but she grew up in Canada. She never tasted wild plums.
I said, These look like wild red plums, and they tasted just like them. Nothing like cherries.
Posted on 6/6/24 at 9:17 am to auggie
I have the wild yellow plum. I would love to find the red ones to start.
Posted on 6/6/24 at 11:29 am to auggie
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His wife brings me these things called Ranier Cherries, she loves the way they taste, but she grew up in Canada. She never tasted wild plums.
I said, These look like wild red plums, and they tasted just like them. Nothing like cherries.
I love Ranier Cherries. You're right, they're much more like a plum than a cherry.
Posted on 6/6/24 at 11:51 am to auggie
rainiers are cherries though…one of the two primary commercial crop cherries (bing cherries are the red ones)
Posted on 6/6/24 at 12:22 pm to cgrand
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rainiers are cherries though
And cherries and plums are both of the genus Prunus. There's really not much differentiating a plum from a cherry, genetically anyway.
Posted on 6/6/24 at 1:11 pm to auggie
We used to gather them by the bucket near my childhood home. Mom made some great jelly with them. I haven't thought about them for years until you mentioned it.
Posted on 6/6/24 at 1:15 pm to Churchill
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I have the wild yellow plum. I would love to find the red ones to start.
I love them all.
I remember as a kid, the yellow ones were more common. You only saw the red ones here and there.
Posted on 6/6/24 at 1:19 pm to auggie
The last bearing tree I ran across was in Easleyville, LA around 1994/95. The wild plums disappeared about the same time the bobwhites vanished.
Posted on 6/6/24 at 1:23 pm to Koolazzkat
Any of y'all know the most common species of wild plum in the south Louisiana area?
Posted on 6/6/24 at 2:04 pm to mcpotiger
When I was a kid, at this time of summer, you could leave the house to go fishing or whatever, you didn't have to worry about lunch. There were plenty of plums and blackberries everywhere.
Posted on 6/6/24 at 2:34 pm to auggie
Yep.. Good ole days!
Posted on 6/6/24 at 2:47 pm to auggie
I think I shot a deer feeding on one in south west Mississippi a couple of years ago. Is this what y'all are talking about?
Posted on 6/6/24 at 2:58 pm to Loup
Looks like a Chickasaw plum.
Posted on 6/6/24 at 3:38 pm to Loup
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Is this what y'all are talking about?
Just wipe it off on your shirt, pop it in your mouth. Nothing tastes better.
Posted on 6/6/24 at 4:33 pm to auggie
Found some east of Lubbock around the caprock last year.
Lots of blossoms but no fruit below Dallas this year.
Lots of blossoms but no fruit below Dallas this year.
Posted on 6/6/24 at 5:45 pm to auggie
Chickasaw plums are what you are speaking of. Back in the day they would be on roadsides in large colonies. Dad would stop and I'd get a bunch and we'd snack on them. Back then, they were easy to spot. Nowadays the roadways are mowed and the fields are fenced. They are not easy to find. I found some for sale, on Hwy 165 just south of Sterlington, and bought four.
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