berry specialist needed to identify picture

[dan27]

please can some one tell me what this is, i thought it was sloes, but there were no sharp spike on branches

 

[Mesquite]

Looks like Damson, but a closer, sharper picture would help make the ID better

Oh yeah... and welcome to the forum Dan

 

[Shewie]

Any chance of a closer look?

They look like sloes to me too but it's hard to tell

EDIT:

Too slow

 

[Harvestman]

Agree, more or less. First thought was sloe, but needs a bigger picture.

 

[blacktimberwolf]

Keep your finger on the Ctrl button & turn your mouse wheels to magnify the photo.....looks like sloe to me too.

 

[Harvestman]

Keep your finger on the Ctrl button & turn your mouse wheels to magnify the photo.....looks like sloe to me too.

Forgot that trick. Pretty sure it is sloe. Made 8 bottles of sloe gin on the weekend, but 5 of them are for someone else. He paid for the gin, so I can't complain really...

 

[Shewie]

Keep your finger on the Ctrl button & turn your mouse wheels to magnify the photo.....

13 years working in IT and I never knew about that little gem, thank you

 

[dan27]

thanks for the help, just being cautious, dont want to poison myself

 

[Mesquite]

13 years working in IT and I never knew about that little gem, thank you

And press CRTL and 0 together to reset the screen size to 100%

 

[Toddy]

Keep your finger on the Ctrl button & turn your mouse wheels to magnify the photo.....looks like sloe to me too.

I don't use a mouse, I have a touchpad thingie...........how do I make it work with that ?

Looks like sloes, but no thorns = damsons, usually.
Slice one open and have a look see what's inside. If it's a wee flat slim stone, it's more likely damson.

cheers,
Toddy

 

[dan27]

there is a stone in the middle , i felt it when i pricked them. do sloes not have any stones ?

 

[Retired Member southey]

Sloes have stones matey, they do look like sloes to me too,

 

[spandit]

Keep your finger on the Ctrl button & turn your mouse wheels to magnify the photo...

Wow, never knew about this and I'm a computer nerd. Works on my Macbook touchpad in Firefox.

Could the berries be bullace?

 

[Kepis]

think id like to see a bigger clearer picture before making a positive ID, but they do look like Sloes

 

[Harvestman]

Bullace, damson, sloe, wild plum... to some extent, it doesn't matter much. It is something in the plum family, and therefore not a poisonous berry. Some of these plum fruit don't fit into our nice convenient named categories anyway.

I'm not advocating eating anything on a guessed identification (that would be stupid), but we do all seem to be agreed that it is some sort of plum, so if your interest is eating, pick one and try one. It may be very tart, but try and taste the flavour as well as the bite, since the sharpness can be offset by sugar or other fruit.

 

[bilmo-p5]

I don't use a mouse, I have a touchpad thingie...........how do I make it work with that ?

Try holding CTRL and sliding your finger up or down the extreme RH edge of the touchpad.

 

[nuggets]

you can change the zoom level as well -bottom right hand of page !

 

[red devil]

Toddy - hold down the Control key then press the + and - keys on the top right end of your keyboard numbers, near the Backspace, to zoom in and out.

 

[Toddy]

Thank you
Well that works (all of them )

Looks like sloes, but the shape of the wee stone inside is kind of indicative.

Is there anything else it *might* be ? None of the plums are toxic, the cherries are all by, we still have very dark rosehips and some ancient hawthorns hanging on to withered branches though, what about cherry laurel ?

Think we're pretty safe with a member of the plums

cheers,
Toddy

 

[udamiano]

I think you can just see a leaf or two in the background that suggest long oval leaves, which would be some sort of 'prunus'
I would if have to guess, some very sad looking sloes.