Fruit ID Help Please
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Fruit ID Help Please
Hi everyone
Can you please help with the ID of these fruits, and one flower. I found them in an old school garden in Liverpool. I also found Hazel and Blackthorns..so looks like a potentially bumper forage site !
Thanks in advance
Dan
PS I am not sure why the other images aren't appearing in the post
Can you please help with the ID of these fruits, and one flower. I found them in an old school garden in Liverpool. I also found Hazel and Blackthorns..so looks like a potentially bumper forage site !
Thanks in advance
Dan
PS I am not sure why the other images aren't appearing in the post
Last edited by dannyllama on Tue Jun 07, 2011 12:01 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Fruit ID Help Please
The flower is Lady's Mantle or Alchemilla Mollis
The first fruit is definitely an apple of some sort, but it's impossible to tell what variety until it ripens up.
The next one is again difficult to tell, definitely from the plum family, could be a damson, probably not a sloe as I can't see any thorns.
The final one is Cherry Laurel, crush a leaf and it smells of almonds.
Hope that helps.
Edit, the other images are too large to show in the text, you need to reduce the size to about 640 x 480.
The first fruit is definitely an apple of some sort, but it's impossible to tell what variety until it ripens up.
The next one is again difficult to tell, definitely from the plum family, could be a damson, probably not a sloe as I can't see any thorns.
The final one is Cherry Laurel, crush a leaf and it smells of almonds.
Hope that helps.
Edit, the other images are too large to show in the text, you need to reduce the size to about 640 x 480.
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Re: Fruit ID Help Please
Hi Tony
Thanks for the ID's. I will keep an eye on the apple and plum-esque fruits. I am glad that I checked on the Cherry Laurel, they are most definitely not edible ! I found some interesting information on them from this site :-
http://www.thepoisongarden.co.uk/atoz.htm
Cheers,
Dan
Thanks for the ID's. I will keep an eye on the apple and plum-esque fruits. I am glad that I checked on the Cherry Laurel, they are most definitely not edible ! I found some interesting information on them from this site :-
http://www.thepoisongarden.co.uk/atoz.htm
Cheers,
Dan
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Re: Fruit ID Help Please
I thought that the fruit of the Cherry Laurel was edible (although not very tasty) as long as you don't eat the seed ?
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Re: Fruit ID Help Please
Has the photo order changed because no. 4 is the cherry laurel.
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Yes, I resized the pics and put them back up...obviously in the wrong order !
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Oh that's OK then, best for anyone reading this thread to clarify anyway.
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Re: Fruit ID Help Please
To avoid confusion I have edited my post to rearrange my answers.
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Re: Fruit ID Help Please
The third looks a little too big to be damson. I take is these are wild? Perhaps near a garden, an espcapee cultivated pulm perhaps?
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Re: Fruit ID Help Please
Danny, where in Liverpool are these? You are near me aren't you?
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Re: Fruit ID Help Please
Hi Jenny
I am near to the Punch Bowl pub in Sefton. However these fottergraffs were taken in deepest darkest Bootle ! Drop me a PM if you want to go a foraging !
Dan
I am near to the Punch Bowl pub in Sefton. However these fottergraffs were taken in deepest darkest Bootle ! Drop me a PM if you want to go a foraging !
Dan
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Re: Fruit ID Help Please
Danny & Jenny sitting in a tree, K I S S I N G......
Sorry, the apple looks like a crab apple variety to me, when then change colour great for making Jellies.
Sorry, the apple looks like a crab apple variety to me, when then change colour great for making Jellies.
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