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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: Tashsteve on August 20, 2017, 16:26:49
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Do these look like Sloe berries? I'm sure they are just need a little reassurance! Thanks
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Certainly does, watch out for the blackthorn spikes, one of the most common ways of getting lockjaw.
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Certainly does, watch out for the blackthorn spikes, one of the most common ways of getting lockjaw.
Thanks!
Any tips on identification? The foliage looks quite different depending on the age of the blackthorn bush
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Cannot think of any wild British tree that they could be confused with, there are other plum (such as bullace and damsons) relations, and possibly hybrids, but to my knowledge, none that are harmful. A single tree might be an escaped ornamental of some type but blackthorn ,where it exists, is unlikely to be solitary. As ACE has said, do look out for the 3-4" thorns, they are evil.
Once put one into my knee, it worked as if acupunctured, lost the feeling, and I was felled into the remaining entanglement. Not to be repeated!!
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Any tips on identification?
Yeh bite one and if you can't play a tuba afterwards they are sloes.
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Any tips on identification?
Yeh bite one and if you can't play a tuba afterwards they are sloes.
Even if they are Victoria plums, it will not enable me to play a tuba!
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Yes, they're sloes but I echo the warning about the thorns so make sure your anti-tetanus jabs are up to date.
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Do these look like Sloe berries? I'm sure they are, just need a little reassurance! Thanks
Definitely sloes you can see the thorns, pick them after the first frost.
john :happy7:
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I am not convinced they are sloe. They look too big, any chance of a pic with a scale, eg a coin in the picture. Do not look thorny enough.
Here a pic showing the blackthorn thorns.
http://www.danish-schnapps-recipes.com/images/sloes-blackthorn-500.jpg
Suggest the bullace. Also edible.
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The sloes round here this year are massive - way bigger then previous years.