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Orange-berried shrub ID please

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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    If you are not 100% sure, which I don't think you are, don't eat them.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • RedSquirrelAbroadRedSquirrelAbroad Posts: 74
    punkdoc said:
    If you are not 100% sure, which I don't think you are, don't eat them.
    Definitely not 100% sure! I’ll leave them for the forest wildlife. There are roe deer in the forest, they will probably eat them. 
  • RedSquirrelAbroadRedSquirrelAbroad Posts: 74
    Buttercupdays said:
    My red Viburnum opulus didn't make it into autumn, let alone this time of year - the blackbirds saw to that! And then started on the elderberries :)
    Lucky birds! Though it would be nice have the berries around for a bit longer, they are very pretty. I wish I had room for a V. Opulus. 
  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546
    The yellow ones get left a bit longer, but they don't show up as well!
    Apparently Cornus mas and Amelanchiers have berries too, but I have never got to see one yet; though the Amelanchier was a gift from a bird, that I brought with me as an unknown seedling from our previous house :)
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    The blackbirds take our Amelanchier fruit as soon as it’s black ... in midsummer. One day they’re green and on the tree ...  the next day they begin to turn colour,  and the next ... there they were, gone!!  😮 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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