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Black mulberry
📍 5102 W Berteau Ave, Chicago, IL 60641, USA
🗓 Season: June · July · August
🔍 When is it ripe?
Deep purple-black when ripe; intensely flavoured and juicy. Spread a tarp and shake the tree — ripe fruits fall immediately. Stains everything permanently — wear old clothes. Do not pick unripe red berries (mildly hallucinogenic).
Beautiful, generous, mildly sweet black mulberry tree located on a City of Chicago public parkway. On Leclaire Street just north of Berteau Avenue, just before the alley that adjoins Hutchinson Street.
The branches are pruned pretty high, but with the weight of the berries - in June, some become within reach. It is a delicious treat on a walk or commute, and doggos also love to forage in the grass and on the sidewalk with the birds and squirrels while their humans snack on hanging mulberries. This is a residential neighborhood, so I try to be unobtrusive and respectful - especially of the privacy of the neighbor whose property is immediately adjacent to the city parkway where the lovely tree grows.
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