How many of these wild fruits from the rural mountains do you still recognize? Full of childhood memories

I grew up in the countryside as a child, and the best thing was running wild all over the hills and fields all day long. We didn't have as many little snacks as kids in the city, haha. The mountains became our natural treasure trove of snacks...

Looking at these familiar little wild fruits below will bring back memories of those happy childhood days...

Wild sweet potato

There were lots of them in the south during summer. When I was little, the adults were busy working, so I and the other kids would go digging for them everywhere. But this thing has male and female types - the male ones can't be eaten, only the female ones can. You also had to be careful when eating them, because many had white worms inside.

There are many names for the snake bubble fruit, but in my hometown in Sichuan we called it snake bubble. The editor was very afraid of this wild fruit. As a child, I don't know who told me that snakes ate it and that anyone who ate it would turn into a snake. Watching other kids pick it to eat, I was so scared I ran far away.

Cat's poop fruit is a wild fruit where the whole plant is a treasure, mainly found in the southwest region. The fruit skin contains rubber and can be made into rubber products; the flesh can be eaten and also used to brew wine; the seeds contain oil and can be pressed for oil; the roots and fruit are used medicinally, having heat-clearing and detoxifying effects, and can also treat hernias. There used to be many of them, but now due to large-scale quarrying by humans, they are not very visible anymore. The flowering period is relatively long, lasting about two months. Although it can be eaten, the editor still couldn't bring himself to take a bite. You can feel it for yourselves after the shell is peeled:
Gegeshe fruit
It looks like hawthorn, and it tastes sweet and sour too, but you suffer after eating it - your whole mouth gets blisters

No need to say much about the thorn bubble - many kids have eaten it, right? Every rural area has this kind. Eating them one by one didn't feel like much, but picking a handful and stuffing them into your mouth - that was truly delicious.

Everyone is also familiar with mulberries, right? Every time we went to and from school we would pick them to eat. The stains on our hands, clothes, and mouths were unbearable to look at. We were often chased and scolded by the field owners, but we still couldn't resist the temptation to pick and eat them. Now few people raise silkworms, so mulberries are becoming fewer and fewer. Every time I go to the supermarket and see them selling for over 20 yuan for a little bit, the editor scoffs, because when I was little they were all free.

In many places, creeping smartweed is called snake retreat, probably because the female vines are all small thorns. Every time we played house we would pick it. My impression now is that it's very sour (every time I see it, my mouth waters and I keep swallowing)

Louse fruit, whose scientific name is Elaeagnus, used to be basically all wild, but now it's all cultivated. I remember when I was little, the closest one to home grew on an old grave on the back hill. The adults were afraid to touch these things, but children weren't afraid of anything as long as it was edible. Because there were too many kids and only one tree, most of the time they were basically gone before they were even ripe, so I always thought this one was sour.