Foraging - Natures Food

Gigervamp

buxtonrabbitgreen wrote: »

The crabapples are green (unless they are quince)

You can't mix the two up as they are totally different plants and quince look more like pears in shape.

Crabapples are small and round. About the size of a pingpong ball.

r.a.i.n.b.o.w

Has anyone got a link to a good website that shows what lots of different wild foods look like, please? (does that even make sense? lol)

I saw lots of hedgerow berries yesterday, but didn't know if any of them were edible, or poisonous! So didn't pick any

I'd love to be able to identify more than just a blackberry!

Thanks! :j

newleaf

This one is quite good. You type in what you think you've found and it will show you some photos of what you've typed, plus some photos of similar things to compare. When you see something that looks right, click on the picture and up pops the info and some links to recipes.
I just tried typing in sloe for instance, it seems to work well.
http://www.celtnet.org.uk/recipes/ancient/wild-food-guide.php

jammy_dodger

sorry i dont have any picture for you guys at moment shall try and post one tomorrow if i can gvet to grips with it

i have just discovered many of the same berry bushes / shrubs along hedgerows .i live in N E scotland


the leaf looks very simmilar in size and shape to a blackcurrant,
the bush / shrub is in excess of 6 ft tall and quite dence so makes for good hedging

the berries hang in small clusters like rowan berries but they are larger than rowan berries more the size of "plump" blackcurrants

they are bright transclucent red color

anyone ant thoughts os to what they could be ?

thanks in advance for your thoughts

Gigervamp

You really need to post a pic.

When I wasn't sure about some berries I came across last year, I googled and it looks like the berries were from a nightshade.

There was a site where you clicked on the leaf shape, flower, berry colour, etc that came up. I'm not on the same pc, so can't give you the link, but look for a site like that.

r.a.i.n.b.o.w

ooh, actually does anyone know of any good books for identifying wild berries, fruit, herbs please?

I can feel a letter to Santa coming on

Gigervamp

The bible is Food For Free, but there are newer ones.

Seakay

jammy_dodger wrote: »

sorry i dont have any picture for you guys at moment shall try and post one tomorrow if i can gvet to grips with it

i have just discovered many of the same berry bushes / shrubs along hedgerows .i live in N E scotland


the leaf looks very simmilar in size and shape to a blackcurrant,
the bush / shrub is in excess of 6 ft tall and quite dence so makes for good hedging

the berries hang in small clusters like rowan berries but they are larger than rowan berries more the size of "plump" blackcurrants

they are bright transclucent red color

anyone ant thoughts os to what they could be ?

thanks in advance for your thoughts

Could it be a guelder rose?
http://www.trees-online.co.uk/images/guelder-rose-viburnum-opulus-174.jpg

if it is then Google
guelder rose recipe
and you will find hits for kissel, jelly, sauce, bottled fruit etc

Laura_D_3

I've spent a lovely day foraging and managed to get blackberries, elderberries and rosehips also found some evening primrose however the following are going under the unidentifiable objects so any help would be appreciated:

Look like blueberries there were hell of a lot of them, the inside is flesdy like blueberries and greenish in colour


These fork like elderberries and have a similarish leaf to a redcurrant -although they look so lovely that they are probably poisonous??


I'm asuming these are some kind of apple?


Any help gratefully received

Thanks

tiff

If the blue ones have a stone in them then they are sloes. Not really edible as they are but used to make sloe gin and can be combined with other hedgerow fruit/berries to make hedgerow jam.