Sloe or Blackthorn.The berries are used to make sloe gin
Skorch33
Sloe as in Sloe Gin. This shrub is viewed as fairy protected in folklore and was amongst those proteted under brehon law. Often used to make the Irish Walking Sticks.
Once you confirm it is sloes/buckthorn. You can eat the berry but don’t eat more than 3 or 4 of the seeds, they contain an acid that acts as a mild poison in high doses.
To put that poison in perspective, alcohol is considered a mild poison.
mick_delaney
If the berries are directly attached to the branches, which is how they look, they’re sloes. If there’s a stem going from each berry to the branch, they’re something else, and I can’t remember what that is.
cjamcmahon1
get yourself some gin 😉
Better-Cancel8658
Leaves seem wrong for blackthorn, which have a longer leaf with jagged edge. Also I think it’s a bit early for the berries, as I recall you should eat after a frost. Otherwise they are bitter. My first thoughts are you have a plum or possibly a damson.
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Sloe or Blackthorn.The berries are used to make sloe gin
Sloe as in Sloe Gin. This shrub is viewed as fairy protected in folklore and was amongst those proteted under brehon law. Often used to make the Irish Walking Sticks.
Once you confirm it is sloes/buckthorn. You can eat the berry but don’t eat more than 3 or 4 of the seeds, they contain an acid that acts as a mild poison in high doses.
To put that poison in perspective, alcohol is considered a mild poison.
If the berries are directly attached to the branches, which is how they look, they’re sloes. If there’s a stem going from each berry to the branch, they’re something else, and I can’t remember what that is.
get yourself some gin 😉
Leaves seem wrong for blackthorn, which have a longer leaf with jagged edge. Also I think it’s a bit early for the berries, as I recall you should eat after a frost. Otherwise they are bitter. My first thoughts are you have a plum or possibly a damson.