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Black elderberry · Cattail · Dewberry · Pickerelweed
📍 3535 s. pipkin rd. lakeland fl usa
🗓 Season: August · September · May · June · July
🔍 When is it ripe?
Black elderberry: Clusters of deep purple-black berries; cut entire clusters. Never eat raw — cook thoroughly (destroys sambunigrin). Ripe when all berries on the cluster are uniformly dark and the cluster droops. High in antioxidants; excellent syrup.
Cattail: Multiple edible parts across the season: young shoots (spring), green flower spikes (May–June, boil like corn), yellow pollen (June–July, shake into a bag), and starchy root (year-round). Green spikes are ripe when fully formed but still bright green.
Dewberry: Like a smaller blackberry on a trailing cane. Fully black and separates easily. A waxy bloom on ripe berries. Ripe before blackberries in most areas.
Easy access, just pull off on the shoulder of the road. These particular elderberries are bigger and plumper than I've seen recently.
If you're concerned about the cleanliness of runoff from the road, you may want to avoid the pickerelweed and cattail. There are many more further west on Pipkin where there's less traffic.
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