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Old 21-07-2003, 10:35 PM
Kay Easton
 
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Default Another berry challenge

In article , Tim Tyler writes
I was so pleased with the excellent assistance offered in my last berry
challenge here I thought I'd try my luck again ;-)

Here are photos of a couple more species of berry that seem
to grow locally near me - in the SW of the UK.

Both appear to be edible - but I'd rather ID them before taking
my chances.

You seem to have a lot more photos than the 4 promised! Not sure which
you want id'ed.

The first one looks like a species of Barberry - or Mahonia.


The first one, which you have labelled berberis - possibly darwinii, I'd
agree with. Definitely Berberis, and I think darwinii but I'm not up on
berberis.


The second has larger fruit - almost an inch across. Orange - turning red
when ripe. With dozens of cream seeds in a single enclosure within.
Each seed has a little tuft of hair atop it - and the fruit has a big
green crown where the flower used to be.


Is this the one you have labelled 'rose'? It's definitely rose, almost
certainly Rosa rugosa.

The final one is a Mahonia, but not sure which species.
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Kay Easton

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