Black Berries

muscadine are as good as anything i ever ate. some of vines grow up trees and you can shake the vines and it sounds like its raining with all the muscadines hitting the ground. they also grow on the side of the mountains here on the ground, and they are heck trying to walk thru. coons love em almost as much as me lol. they taste alot like skupahnams(sp) but grow wild.

I know what the wild grapes are but still don't think I have ever seen a muskydine and absolutely have no clue what a skupahanmas is

I've seen wild grapes as well. Are skupahanmas anything like unicorns? LOL

Im lost on the skupahanmas ive never heard of them unless its called something else here ... Dimpsy ...

Maybe when skeets gets back on he can tell us what they are or if we are lucky a pi of them

lol yall. its a good bet i might not have spelled it right lol. let me try again skup-ah-nombs. they are a little bigger then grapes and they are green, the best i can remember it was hard to tell the ripe ones, you just had to look real close. when i was a kid my granddaddy told me about them and how good they were. well one year he planted some and they are alot better then grapes, they are sweeter and bigger then grapes. if my granddaddy was alive he would be nearly 100 years old, so they might be called something else now and he was from tennessee. the ones he grew were the only ones i ever saw and i aint saw any in about 30 years but i can remember them well. i love grapes but i would rather have skupahnombs any day of the week.lol

That sorta sounds like the greenish gray Muscadines like i was trying to get to grow here and you dont see them as much as years back but they can get as big around as the old big marbles and have a whole lot better taste than most grape's do and the vine's or the grape dont look like the dark colored Muscadine ... Dimpsy ...

dimpsy that sounds alot like them to me, they did taste alot like muscadines. they do well here, we had them growing all over the dog lot.

I swear I don't believe we have either of them here I have heard of muskydine wine but I really didn't know it actually came from a muskydine berry. I thought I knew most plants in the woods but since I been getting on these site I have seen a lot of plants I didn't know and this is one I would love to see a pic of the fruit and the vine if anybody could find the time to get 1

Luther your last comment got me to thinking..... We need to start A topic of
WHAT IS THIS? Every one who can, show a picture of some type of plant and let the rest of us say what it's called in our neck of the woods. It will be fun to compare local names for the same plant.

Whatg do you think?

Skeets i was talking to my cousin today he lives down in the flat land where i was getting the Muscadine at and he was telling me what all they was called and he said they was different types of them but they was all Muscadine, Fox Grape, Scuppernong, Bullacce, he said they was 3 or 4 different types down thear and they got ripe at different times of the year and i got these pictures off the internet but the grapes dont look the same as they do in the wild to me ... Dimpsy ...

Scuppernong


this looks close to the ones i was getting


this looks like the more common ones you see everywhere

Vadan that sounds like a good topic to get going.

Dimpsy thanks for the pics and I don't believe we have them here or aty least I have never seen em. All we got here is what we called possum grapes and they aint near as big as them you posted but I guess they could be a type of muskydine

The only thing we have is what people call a Fox Grape. The fruit is tiny, almost black and sour as can be untill the frost and cold weatreh sweetnes them up. After a frost or two they are OK to eat.

dimpsy the ones in the middle was the kind we grew. scuppernog is how you spell it then lol.i knowed i wasnt plum crazy when i was talking bout scuppernog. dimpsy thank you for the pictures and if you get a chance to try them green scuppernogs by all means get you some. the side of the mountain here is plum coverd in muscadines, i even got some growing here by the creek in front of my house. i treed a coon tonight and as i was walking to the dogs i was waist deep sometimes in muskydine vines. ive eaten alot of muskydines during the summer when i couldnt get any water while out hunting. one night i didnt think i was going to make it back to the truck i was so thirsty and it was hot as blue blazes, and i walked upon some muskydines and i ate every last one of them things lol. i looked like i was going to birth a baby lol but it put a little giddy up in my step and i made back to the truck lol

On a totally unrelated topic, Skeets, sounds to me like you need to carry a bottle of water with you man. Don't get so dehydrated you can't make it out.


As for the grapes, sure would like to have them growing around my place. That would be awesome.