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Trying to ID a mysterious fruit
On Dec 10, 7:12 pm, Stewart Robert Hinsley
wrote: In message , judith.lea writes On Dec 10, 3:27 pm, Sacha wrote: On 10/12/07 14:35, in article , "judith.lea" wrote: On Dec 3, 11:20 pm, Sacha wrote: On 3/12/07 17:00, in article , "Mike...." wrote: Following up to (Nick Maclaren) wrote: "Some sort of japonica", in normal usage, can mean only one of the Chaenomeles. Japonica as the name of a group of plants means that and nothing else. are there not various "japanese" quinces? I understood the meaning to be that. I had an ormamental one in the garden for a time. Japanese quinces are usually understood to be Chaenomeles and then there are named varieties of that. AFAIK, you can make jelly from them. Cydonia is the true quince with the large, golden, roughly pear-shaped fruit - these are real beauties when mature trees but they're not the 'mysterious fruit' I'm trying to ID. -- Sachahttp://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove weeds from address) 'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.' I have some quince in my back garden and I don't have the faintest if they are edible or not, my husband laughed when I bought quince at the local greengrocers to make quince jelly for Christmas, he swears we have the same thing in the garden, but I am not chancing it - with my slight knowledge - I am bound to get them confused. Take them to your local greengrocer, they'll tell you. The French and Italians are good at using whatever comes to hand and knowing how to use it safely, too. -- Sacha- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - You are absolutely correct, do you know that mushrooms can be taken to the pharmacy for identification? Out of a whole basket, only one type of mine was edible! The others could be eaten, with the exception of one sounding like amoneta? but they would taste awful, so the pharmacist said. I will stick to buying them in the shop I think. Amanita. That genus contains several deadly fungi, including the death cap, fool's mushroom and destroying angel. Wikipedia claims that Amanita accounts for 95% of deaths by mushroom poisoning. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita -- Stewart Robert Hinsley- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Bloomin' 'eck, will I ever eat a mushroom again? |
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