help with hedgerow forraged fruit

Dunx69

I have found the following 2 fruits in a sort of hedgerow on the way to work, both have a peachy cherry type smell and both are ripe, before I eat them I want to check if they are poisonous.

Looking at the pics are they safe to eat?

emiff6

Take a look at this thread
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2637489

Dunx69

thanks i think you were right, i eat them and im still alive so I would assume they are victoria plums

Money_maker

Not Victoria plums, cherry plums.

ladylouise62

The council used them as a hedging plant around here - some seem to come out red, some yellow.... but although edible, they don't seem to be very tasty.

socks_uk

Just wondered if there are any 'plum looking' trees that are actually poisonous? Does anyone know?

annie123

the first one is a Mirabelle plum, makes lovely jam and tarts and the 2nd one is a cherry plum, also delicious in jams and tarts

LandyAndy

annie123 wrote: »

the first one is a Mirabelle plum, makes lovely jam and tarts and the 2nd one is a cherry plum, also delicious in jams and tarts

Thank you:T. We've got one of these in our garden and I never knew what it was.

I can confirm that the fruit are delicious when ripe.:j

Lotus-eater

socks_uk wrote: »

Just wondered if there are any 'plum looking' trees that are actually poisonous? Does anyone know?

I don't think so, but if you go out and eat tiny plums that turn out to be sloes, you will know it!

We have some sloes round here, almost the size of bullaces.

yardy

annie123 wrote: »

the first one is a Mirabelle plum, makes lovely jam and tarts and the 2nd one is a cherry plum, also delicious in jams and tarts

This. Both of these were used as hedging plants in Cambridgeshire when I was a kid and they are great for cooking + jams etc. Mirabelle's are pretty good to eat IMO- we called them my-ra-bellas!

miltonskeen

Plums... yummy