On Sep 26, 11:43*pm, "Christina Websell"
wrote:
"TerryJ" wrote in message

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On Sep 26, 4:08 pm, "Roger" wrote:



"TerryJ" wrote in message

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I wonder if anyone here could please help me to identify this fruit
before my friend, who has made jam out of it, poisens himself.
I think I have persuaded him to wait until we have some idea what it
is.

The bush is more than 15years old , possibly many decades old, in an
old garden near Nottingham.
Pictures are to be found he

http://s189.photobucket.com/albums/z...ry%20berries/?....

TerryJ

Ornamental crab apple, should be fine to use.

thanks for your response. The problem is that it has a single hard
stone , like a plum. i have put another pic on the same place.

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It's not a crab apple, *I do not recognise it and until I did I wouldn't
make jam from it, let alone eat it!

Tina

I agree. I do not eat things I do not know are ok.
There is an interesting episode in the journal of captain bligh after
te bounty mutiny when he sailed across the pacific in a little boat.
They stopped for a wile on islands of the gt barrier reef where they
found food by each adopting one item for a few days. if after 3 or so
days a man was still ok that meant his food was safe to eat. I have
never felt that desperate myself!