sunberries

aka wonderberry. Still haven't eaten beyond a taste when the first few came ripe. I had been picking a small handful every few days and adding to a container in the freezer.

Then learned that they ought to be very dark and lackluster at picking- that's when fully ripe. Some I gathered earlier still had flush of purple or even green. I sifted through the container and discarded about half. Then left more on the plant to ripen as full bunches. Only then more got ruined by insects or started decaying by the time I plucked the whole bunch off-

out of that batch, only these were good:

So I'm back to picking individual berries again, only waiting until they're fully dark now.