What are these?
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 11:02 am
Also on the same foraging trip, found these, any ideas?
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Re: What are these?
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 11:30 am
Rosehips of some sort, i think. We've got a few like that round here. : )
Re: What are these?
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 3:34 pm
Could be an ornamental type called Rosa rugosa that councils grow everywhere that isn't edible. They have much bigger, flashier flowers.
Otherwise soil conditions or weather can produce black / purple cultivars of wild plants like rosehip/wild rose and elderberry.
Just be careful tasting the fruit - try a tiny piece of the flesh against your skin and wait a few minutes. Any tingling or burning, wash with lots of water, quickly! if that's ok, try against your lip. then try chewing a bit. (better safe than sorry...I did once try eating the fruit from the ornamental type, very bitter and impossible to get rid of the taste for hours!)
Otherwise soil conditions or weather can produce black / purple cultivars of wild plants like rosehip/wild rose and elderberry.
Just be careful tasting the fruit - try a tiny piece of the flesh against your skin and wait a few minutes. Any tingling or burning, wash with lots of water, quickly! if that's ok, try against your lip. then try chewing a bit. (better safe than sorry...I did once try eating the fruit from the ornamental type, very bitter and impossible to get rid of the taste for hours!)
Re: What are these?
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 8:04 pm
Hmmmm think I will give them a miss just to be sure. Hacve pleanty of red ones anyway.
Thanks for your help.
Helen
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Thanks for your help.
Helen
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Re: What are these?
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 8:52 pm
Rosa rugosa hips are entirely edible* and can be used in exactly the same ways as wild rosehips, they're just larger, fleshier and ripen earlier (which I find handy as it lengthens the foraging season for hips and I do like to make bucketloads of syrup to eat with natural yogurt).
However, these aren't rosa rugosa hips. They are the purple black hips of the Scots' or Burnet Rose*
(Rosa spinosissima). Use them as you would any other rosehips - although they are small and just a little a bit fiddly to process - they will give you a pleasingly dark burgundy coloured syrup which I do like to make whenever I manage to get hold of some. I think you're lucky!
A while ago there was a thread packed with plenty of rosehip recipes to try out. I'm sure if you ask one of the mods very nicely they'll post a link to it for you.
* http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?Rosa+rugosa
http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php ... nellifolia
However, these aren't rosa rugosa hips. They are the purple black hips of the Scots' or Burnet Rose*
(Rosa spinosissima). Use them as you would any other rosehips - although they are small and just a little a bit fiddly to process - they will give you a pleasingly dark burgundy coloured syrup which I do like to make whenever I manage to get hold of some. I think you're lucky!
A while ago there was a thread packed with plenty of rosehip recipes to try out. I'm sure if you ask one of the mods very nicely they'll post a link to it for you.
* http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?Rosa+rugosa
http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php ... nellifolia
Re: What are these?
Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 5:16 am
http://www.selfsufficientish.com/forum/ ... 23&t=14857
It was only halfway down the page!
Good having you around Hedgehogpie.
It was only halfway down the page!
Good having you around Hedgehogpie.
Re: What are these?
Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 11:29 am
Thank you for that! I know it couldn't have been far away but you know what it's like wading through loads of topics when you're looking for something. 