Are Chickasaw Plums Edible?

The tart plums can be eaten fresh or turned into tasty jelly, and they're also enjoyed by wildlife. Chickasaw plums form a rounded mass of slender, thorny branches around a short trunk. They can grow up to 25 feet tall, but are more often found in the 6- to 12-foot range.

Can you eat Chickasaw plum?

Thicket-forming shrub or sometimes a small tree, with slender, spreading branches, small white flowers, and red plums. Cultivated by the Chickasaw Indians and other indigenous peoples before the arrival of Europeans. This plum is eaten fresh and made into jellies and preserves.

Are Chickasaw plums poisonous?

Liberated from their shells the sunflower-sized kernels of these plums can create cyanide in your gut. Very small amounts don't bother us but we are not talking about small amounts.