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Hi, I've acquired a garden with some bushes/trees. I can tell the difference between the apple trees & the plum tree but what are these please? One has green fruit like a small plum but rounder & the other has lots of small red berries. Most importantly; can I eat them?
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Not sure about the red berries, but the green one looks like a greengage or an unripe plum. Try cutting one open to see?come visit a garden
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I dont know what the red berries are but they do look like the sort that my mum always told me not to eat as a child!
The green ones..... im with perkin, greengage, unripe plum of damson maybe?Little ol' me
Has just bagged a Lottie!
Oh and the chickens are taking over my garden!
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Looks like a sorbus to me. Possibly whitebeam (sorbus aria). Not sure if they are edible but if in doubt !!!Comment
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Reins-Claude plums ( greengages) are green and round....That'd be my guess too!
No idea about the red berries- sorry."Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple
Location....Normandy FranceComment
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The red berries look like cotoneaster, not commonly eaten but don't think they're poisonousComment
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I'm with you on the Green ones, but I'd say the red ones could be a Viburnum? All the best - Glutton 4 Punishment
Freelance shrub butcher and weed removal operative.Comment
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There's a link to cotoneaster http://www.findmeplants.co.uk/photos...aintmonica.jpg
and the sorbus aria is on this page Wild Food School - Some Edible & Poisonous Berries. I wouldn't bet against eitherComment
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I am going to go with G4 and reckon that the red berries are a Viburnum.Rat
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Scottish by the Grace of God
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