They also feed by crushing ripe berries and sipping the juice.

"Nothing beats a really ripe berry fresh off the bush," he said.

Her eyes were the intense deep purple of the ripest berries.

Old Nathan found a ripe berry and twisted it off the vine.

The eyes would be first to go - popping like ripe berries.

If you went out and found a cache of ripe berries or roots, you were happy!

Their habit is to return to this one source of ripe berries every day, until the bush is stripped.

Afterward, we'd sit around a table covered with newspapers and sort the ripe berries from the green ones.

A jelly can be made from its ripe berries.

Rosie turned away without a word, and in the afternoon she took Mary across the stubbles to where the ripe berries grew.