Category Archives: Beautyberry

Making beautyberry jelly 2025-10-11

Smells good while doing this.

Pouring beautyberry jelly into jars

Very tasty later as jelly.

American Beautyberry, Callicarpa americana.

This is the same plant whose leaves repel mosquitos, yellowflies, and other insects.

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Beautyberries almost ripe 2025-09-14

You can eat beautyberries now, but they will be riper in a few weeks.

Beautyberries, Callicarpa americana

They’re no longer mealy, and they have some flavor. They’re ripe enough to be made into jelly.

But in a few weeks they’ll be in full flavor. Even better then for eating or wine-making.

Callicarpa americana is native to the U.S. southeast, from Maryland to east Texas, plus Mexico and parts of the Carribean.

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Maypop, ground cherry, blueberry, fig, beautyberry 2022-05-29

Spring is in bloom or fruit.

Beautyberry (Callicarpa americana)

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Yellow Dog, Rosemallow, Beautyberry, Treat’s Rain Lily 2021-06-12

Update 2024-06-10: Yellow Dog’s rosemallow, three years later 2024-06-09

On our daily walk to the field, Yellow Dog encountered the first Swamp Rosemallow of the year, and perhaps the last Treat’s Rain Lily, while the Beautyberry remains in bloom.

Halberd-leaf rosemallow, Yellow Dog

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Dogs in their beautyberry bath 2020-10-22

Cleanly, those porch dogs are. After a walk, Honeybun stuck her head under the bathwater and paddled furiously. Nervous Nellie seemed more inclined to get a drink.

Yes, that’s beautyberry, Callicarpa americana, around the dog beauty bath.

Honeybun and Nervous Nellie in the beautyberry bathtub