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Muscadine · Sawtooth blackberry
📍 200 Morgan Pl SE, Sandy Springs, GA 30350, USA
🗓 Season: August · September · October
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Large, bronze or purple berries; thick skin. Ripe when fully coloured and falls freely from the vine with a shake. Very sweet and musky; thick skin usually discarded. Harvest by shaking clusters over a bucket.
Not completely certain about the species, but I believe these plants are sawtooth blackberry. They grow in abundance along a section of trail in Morgan Falls Overlook Park. This park is owned by the city of Sandy Springs, and is open to the public. The younger canes tend to outgrow and cover older fruiting canes, and even overgrow the path. I cannot say with authority that park rules/sandy springs allow people to cut these bushes or pick the fruits however the trails are intended to be usable. I have gone to cut canes back from the trail (and score a snack) and many regular users were very grateful. The trails seem to be officially maintained about twice a year by the city - often in late winter crews come to clear-cut all the blackberry canes and grapevines. Grapevines grow intermittently throughout this area, and tend to produce fairly well, but only above one's head.
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