Wild plums, do yall see them much anymore?

I remember riding the tractor into the woods to pick muscadine’s now their hard to find in the woods. My dad has a few bushes he grows

I came up on some "wild" plum trees in a spot I hunt in North MS. I'm not certain, but it looks like there may have been a house/shack at some point around them years ago, so they may have been planted. I never see them anymore on our land in Greene County, AL

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I remember riding the tractor into the woods to pick muscadine’s now their hard to find in the woods.

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they're usually plentiful here in South LA. I freaking slaughtered the hogs under them last September. In this particular area they were along a bayou. I would pull my boat under, give the vine a few shakes, and then munch on them while waiting for pigs to show up.

We didn't have mahaws where I grew up, and I have never heard of any around here where I live now.

I have the yellow ones. I have heard there used to be red ones growing in our area, but I have never seen them.

See if you can find some wild persimmons and give them a try instead.

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See if you can find some wild persimmons and give them a try instead.

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I like ripe persimmons OK personally, but we're a few months away from that.
Here's something you probably don't know about wild persimmons: If you split the seeds of green persimmons in half longways, you will find a fork or a knife inside.

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You hardly ever see crab apples either.

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Well, those aren't for eatin, those are for fightin.

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For those who do not know, wild plums are generally small and tart, not terrible for fresh eating but best for jellies and such.

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I don't know where you are from, but where I grew up, wild plums were sweet and delicious when they were ripe. Really tasted better than the tame ones. We had fruit trees including the big purple plums, but the wild plums tasted better. They are smaller though, didn't really matter though, because the bushes would be so full, you could just pick them by the handfuls.

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See if you can find some wild persimmons and give them a try instead.

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My aunt had a 'simmon tree in her back yard and one year just before they ripened a storm came through and blew them all over the back yard...damn things drew the cyclone fence at the property line 3.5 feet closer to the house....there ain't nothing'll pucker something up and draw in inwards like an unripe 'simmon….we used to dare one another to eat one...one was all you 'd ever eat I don't give a damn if you were triple dog dared...in fact this was almost sacrosanct that you could not call triple dog dare someone to eat an unripe persimmon...it was considered bad form and raise questions about your heritage and ancestry...