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Autumn-olive · Lemonade sumac · Persimmon · Rose · Sassafras
📍 Camp Sherwood Dr, Troy, MO 63379, USA
🗓 Season: September · October · November · August
🔍 When is it ripe?
Autumn-olive: Small, silvery-speckled red berries in clusters. Ripe when deep red and slightly soft; tart-sweet flavour. Very high in lycopene. Good for jam; note this is an invasive species in North America.
Persimmon: Non-astringent types: eat when orange and firm. Astringent types: wait until very soft and wrinkled. Both fully orange when ripe.
Rose: Rose hips (swollen seed pods) ripen to red or orange after flowering. Pick when fully coloured and slightly soft. Remove the seeds and hairs inside (irritating). Very high in vitamin C; excellent for syrup, tea, and jelly. Leave some for birds in winter.
Sassafras: Dark blue-black berries on red stalks. Edible but rarely used. The bark and roots (root beer flavour) contain safrole — regulated. Young leaves can be dried and ground as filé powder for gumbo.
The persimmon tree is near the meeting hall. Behind the meeting hall is a short (less than a mile long trail, where you can find the rest of the plants).
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