What is this Fruit

[theothermarg]

Went to Berkeley castle today and saw this fruit  bush/tree.I,m afraid I broke a rule and tasted the fruit which looked like a blackberry except the thick trunk and leaves.I got my comeupance for doing this (and in front of my grandkids too :-[)
by getting a big red stain on my white top as it was very juicy

and this one at the bottom which was down the terrace steps,so it was quite a tall tree

any idea,s
marg (a very naughty granny

[theothermarg]

[Eristic]

Mulberry.

[star]

I was going to say Mullberry too.............Lovely eh, Marg ;)?

;D ;D ;D If ya cant be naughty as a granny you might as well give up, now what else have you been scrumping. Be honest! ;D

[theothermarg]

Thankyou I,v never seen it before just know the name from the nursery rhyme
think I am stuck with the stain that.l teach me
marg
star got to confess I nick the odd raspberry from one of those plots that leave um to grow and rot on the way to my plot ;D

[pigeonseed]

I used to do that!

The next door plot was empty and had autumn raspberries, so I used to pick them but too ashamed to do it when anyone was looking!

Other people do weird things like grow tomatoes and beans and put in all the hard work, then b***r off when they're actually ripe, and let them drop on the floor and rot.

why do their veg always look tastier then mine?  ;)

[GrannieAnnie]

Marg, what if that tree had poisonous fruit??

My father in law was living in Guyana once and picked something he was sure was sugarcane and tasted it despite his wife's warning.
His mouth turned into a huge blister!

[daileg]

i would say mulberrys as well we had them in our garden in south africa loads of them the leaves are great for silk worms they love em mmmm tasty we also had a cum quat tree there lush as a kid used to make a pig of my self used to sit in the tree and scoff till my stomach hurt lol

those were the days hey

[isbister]

Definitely a Mulberry - essential ingredient of mulberry and ginger jam