wild fruit collection part 2

[swaine]

a follow up to the thread (anyone still gather wild fruit,) WAS INTRESTING TO SEE JUST WHAT CAN BE COLLECTED FROM OUR COUNTRYSIDE
but has anyone found/collected any of the following from the wild,
or anything you thought was unusual/ out of the ordinary fruit wise

YELLOW OR WHITE RASPBERRY (described as not uncommon in the complete british berries book)
LOGANBERRY (naturalised embankments,commons,waste places quote from flora brittanica richard mabey)
TAYBERRY OR BOYSENBERRY, appears spontaniously in wild (flora brittanica)
DEWBERRY,(RUBUS CAESIUS)
SALMONBERRY (found east lothian, flora brittanica)
WILD WHITE STRAWBERRY (described occasionall, british berries)
CLOUDBERRY (NOWTBERRY to some)
STONE BRAMBLE(RUBUS SAXATILLIS)

have you found anything the fruits unusually early or late?
on a walk thru local woods the other day to find some wild garlic which i found in profusion, i came accros a wild raspberry patch the canes stood double my height, the canes 12ft each! and stood tall, not drooping gonna keep an eye at fruitng time on these, stew

[brooklynodog]

My wife and I often go to a caravan park in Blandford Forum (Dorset) in summer. This is a large working farm with extensive woodlands where the most delicious wild raspberries grow in absolute profusion. Very pungent raspberry flavour but much smaller.

[swaine]

thats very intresting, i have grown plants from wild colleted raspberry seed,
the fruits althou very small, smaller than thumnail, fruit in profusion too and taste is a lot more sharp and intense than cultivated, and were as wild raspberries can sometimes be misshapen a little, these seedlings produce perfect shaped rounded fruit,

[swaine]

forgot to add, anyone found wild GOOSEBERRY, if so what colour fruit/size
etc

[pigletwillie]

We found yellow raspberries in Scotland a few years back, very tasty indeed they were and very much a suprise to find.

[Snadger]

forgot to add, anyone found wild GOOSEBERRY, if so what colour fruit/size
etc

I've found wild gooseberries in the hedgerows! Very small, hard, green and bitter hairy fruit!

[swaine]

the yellow raspberry in scotland is intresting a few people have mentioned this to me, the association of wild yellows/whites in scotland,dont seem to be mentioned england area,
i have yet to find a wild yellow/white raspberry, can you remeber month of finding it?
anything else at all, size,shape of berry,colour(orange,yellow,cream,white)

also good info on the goosberry, the gooseberry and white rasp only ones i have yet to find in the wild, maybe this year,
again on the gooseberry month of finding ? thumbnail size fruit?
have been told there reds,yellow gooseberries out there, just need to find them,
stewart

[smallblueplanet]

thats very intresting, i have grown plants from wild collected raspberry seed, the fruits althou very small, smaller than thumnail, fruit in profusion too and taste is a lot more sharp and intense than cultivated....

I'd not tasted home-grown raspberries before last year, well I must have as a kid but that was forty years ago. We grew some Joan J, they were prolific, but the fruit was bigger/longer than I imagined and somehow blander, still raspberry, but a bit 'weak'. Maybe it was all the rain, or that it was their 1st year?

I like the sound of your 'wild' raspberries.

[Flummery]

We've found wild gooseberries in hedgerows in the south lake district on holiday. It would be July. Small, but not ridiculously so, and sharp. We made sauce for mackerel. Also found whitecurrants - same place. We have a couple of white berried elder near us - well, several miles away - near where we used to live. They are sweeter and less astringent that the black ones. We only collected a few ounces of them so made elder berry brandy - golden and gorgeous!

[swaine]

wild gooseberies and whitecurrants and a white berried elder thats excellent,
i thought whitecurrants would be rarer but seem quite common place,
july seem to be the best month for the wild fruit, thats when i find most things,

[Flummery]

You have to get there before the birds for the white elder. They are so sweet that the birds strip them off as soon as they're ripe.

[Birdie Wife]

I've picked cloudberries up here, they don't grow in any profusion and most years there are none at all so I don't pick many even when I can get them. TBH they aren't all they're cracked up to be taste-wise, the look of them is much more impressive, like a huge orange blackberry.

[yoanbob]

we get cloudberrys too, they dont taste as good as the billberrys that they grow next too so we tend to leave them for the birds

[swaine]

what sort of area are you finding the cloudberries? (moors?) with marsh
high altitude, ground conditions, acidic soil
any sign of other fruit(cranberries,lingonberries etc),
what season/month are they ripe?
stewart