Tree Identification Please?
Anyone recognise this small tree please?
It is approximately 15 to 20 feet high and covered with lichens. It has small blue/grey berries on it, which are mostly pip with a very thin pulp. The pip is very hard and firmly attached to the thin flesh. Pictures at: http://www.avisoft.co.uk/MysteryTree.jpg http://www.avisoft.co.uk/MysteryTwigWithBerries.JPG http://www.avisoft.co.uk/MysteryBerryCutOpen.JPG -- David .... Email address on website http://www.avisoft.co.uk .... Blog at http://dlts-french-adventures.blogspot.com/ |
Tree Identification Please?
"David (in Normandy)" wrote in message ... Anyone recognise this small tree please? It is approximately 15 to 20 feet high and covered with lichens. It has small blue/grey berries on it, which are mostly pip with a very thin pulp. The pip is very hard and firmly attached to the thin flesh. Pictures at: http://www.avisoft.co.uk/MysteryTree.jpg http://www.avisoft.co.uk/MysteryTwigWithBerries.JPG http://www.avisoft.co.uk/MysteryBerryCutOpen.JPG -- David ... Email address on website http://www.avisoft.co.uk ... Blog at http://dlts-french-adventures.blogspot.com/ It looks like a Damson plum tree. Some of the Google images look similar. Perhaps lack of water has not allowed the fruit to swell to its full potential? |
Tree Identification Please?
Anyone recognise this small tree please? It is approximately 15 to 20 feet high and covered with lichens. It has small blue/grey berries on it, which are mostly pip with a very thin pulp. The pip is very hard and firmly attached to the thin flesh. how about sloe, good for sloe gin/vodka/whiskey :-) Lichen is good also, sign of clean air kate |
Tree Identification Please?
David (in Normandy) wrote: Anyone recognise this small tree please? It is approximately 15 to 20 feet high and covered with lichens. It has small blue/grey berries on it, which are mostly pip with a very thin pulp. The pip is very hard and firmly attached to the thin flesh. Pictures at: http://www.avisoft.co.uk/MysteryTree.jpg http://www.avisoft.co.uk/MysteryTwigWithBerries.JPG http://www.avisoft.co.uk/MysteryBerryCutOpen.JPG -- I believe it's a blackthorn - the fruit is called sloe in English I think - definitely prunelle in French. You can pick them after the first frosts, and make jam. Or you can do what the English do, and macerate them into mind altering beverages :-) Cat(h) |
Tree Identification Please?
"Rupert (W.Yorkshire)" wrote in message ... "David (in Normandy)" wrote in message ... Anyone recognise this small tree please? It is approximately 15 to 20 feet high and covered with lichens. It has small blue/grey berries on it, which are mostly pip with a very thin pulp. The pip is very hard and firmly attached to the thin flesh. Pictures at: http://www.avisoft.co.uk/MysteryTree.jpg http://www.avisoft.co.uk/MysteryTwigWithBerries.JPG http://www.avisoft.co.uk/MysteryBerryCutOpen.JPG -- David ... Email address on website http://www.avisoft.co.uk ... Blog at http://dlts-french-adventures.blogspot.com/ It looks like a Damson plum tree. Some of the Google images look similar. Perhaps lack of water has not allowed the fruit to swell to its full potential? We would call that a Bullace sort of half way between a sloe and a damson. -- Charlie, gardening in Cornwall. http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of National Plant Collection of Clematis viticella (cvs) |
Tree Identification Please?
On 16/8/06 09:41, in article , "David
(in Normandy)" wrote: Anyone recognise this small tree please? It is approximately 15 to 20 feet high and covered with lichens. It has small blue/grey berries on it, which are mostly pip with a very thin pulp. The pip is very hard and firmly attached to the thin flesh. Pictures at: http://www.avisoft.co.uk/MysteryTree.jpg http://www.avisoft.co.uk/MysteryTwigWithBerries.JPG http://www.avisoft.co.uk/MysteryBerryCutOpen.JPG Blackthorn or Prunus spinosa. Start looking out some sloe gin recipes, you lucky thing! -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/ |
Tree Identification Please?
In message , "David (in
Normandy)" writes Anyone recognise this small tree please? It is approximately 15 to 20 feet high and covered with lichens. It has small blue/grey berries on it, which are mostly pip with a very thin pulp. The pip is very hard and firmly attached to the thin flesh. Pictures at: http://www.avisoft.co.uk/MysteryTree.jpg http://www.avisoft.co.uk/MysteryTwigWithBerries.JPG http://www.avisoft.co.uk/MysteryBerryCutOpen.JPG People have suggested plum (Prunus domestica var. domestica), bullace (P. doemstica var. insititia) and blackthorn/sloe (P. spinosa). There's also greengage (P. domestica var. italica). Blackthorn is usually a hedgerow shrub. It has spiny twigs, while the others are either not spiny or only sparsely so. Another means of distinguishing them, not useful at this time of year, is that the blackthorn flowers before the leaves open, and the others after or as the leaves open. [Data from Stace, New Flora of the British Isles, 1st edn.] -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
Tree Identification Please?
Thank you all for the replies. Looks like I'll be doing a bit of homebrewing
again in the near future :-) Time to dig out my old copy of CJJ Berry winemaking, it's been a few years. -- David .... Email address on website http://www.avisoft.co.uk .... Blog at http://dlts-french-adventures.blogspot.com/ |
Tree Identification Please?
The message from Sacha contains these words:
"David (in Normandy)" wrote: Anyone recognise this small tree please? It is approximately 15 to 20 feet high and covered with lichens. It has small blue/grey berries on it, which are mostly pip with a very thin pulp. The pip is very hard and firmly attached to the thin flesh. Pictures at: http://www.avisoft.co.uk/MysteryTree.jpg http://www.avisoft.co.uk/MysteryTwigWithBerries.JPG http://www.avisoft.co.uk/MysteryBerryCutOpen.JPG Blackthorn or Prunus spinosa. Start looking out some sloe gin recipes, you lucky thing! I've got 40 of these babies. Perhaps I should start commercial production? ;-) Or perhaps O would like some (of the young plants, I mean!) -- AnneJ |
Tree Identification Please?
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from "David \(in Normandy\)" contains these words: Thank you all for the replies. Looks like I'll be doing a bit of homebrewing again in the near future :-) Time to dig out my old copy of CJJ Berry winemaking, it's been a few years. In don't think you actually have to "brew" sloe gin, you top up a 2/3 full bottle of gin with 'pricked' sloes, and take it from there. At least that was how I understood the process.... -- AnneJ |
Tree Identification Please?
Sacha writes
On 16/8/06 09:41, in article , "David (in Normandy)" wrote: Anyone recognise this small tree please? It is approximately 15 to 20 feet high and covered with lichens. It has small blue/grey berries on it, which are mostly pip with a very thin pulp. The pip is very hard and firmly attached to the thin flesh. Pictures at: http://www.avisoft.co.uk/MysteryTree.jpg http://www.avisoft.co.uk/MysteryTwigWithBerries.JPG http://www.avisoft.co.uk/MysteryBerryCutOpen.JPG Blackthorn or Prunus spinosa. Start looking out some sloe gin recipes, you lucky thing! If it is sloe rather than damson, then it will have spines. It's other common name is blackthorn. -- Kay |
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