Fungus on blackberries & sloes?

Floss

We've been out for a walk today in sunny Blackpool, and have seen loads of blackberries & some sloes (great to make sloe gin with). However, virtually all of them are covered in fungus.....

a) Has anybody else noticed this in other parts of the country?
b) I guess we shouldn't eat them?

Farway

Are you sure it is fungus & not natural bloom?

Plums, sloes & grapes have a natural silvery / whitish bloom, not always present on supermarket stuff as it has been mucked about too much

pic here

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/syllabi/319/1plum.html

ollyk

Could it be the dreaded Botrytus? nasty ifection that can usually effects things in doors but can attack seeming healthy plants outside too!

floss2

Definitely not bloom, affecting the leaves as well, looked like a rust type of thing.
Bloom normally shows when sloes & plums are ripe, which these aren't, they're just all scabby!

sloth

Could it be due to all the rain we have had this year? We had a little on our blackberries this year and we have never had it before. But it has rained A LOT......