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toggle

Joined: 30 Dec 2006
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Location: truro

Posted: Sun Sep 26, 10 9:17 pm Post subject: honeysuckle berries
are they edible?

gil
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Posted: Sun Sep 26, 10 9:22 pm Post subject: Re: honeysucke berries

toggle wrote:

are they edible?

NO !!!!! Poisonous (except for some obscure variety, probably mentioned on the PFAF website)

toggle

Joined: 30 Dec 2006
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Location: truro

Posted: Sun Sep 26, 10 9:24 pm Post subject:
i'll pull them off the plant by the door then. kids keep eyeing them up

sean
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Sun Sep 26, 10 9:25 pm Post subject:
You haven't got enough kids to do a proper LD50 trial so that's probably best.

Bernie66

Joined: 14 Jan 2005
Posts: 13967
Location: Eastoft

Posted: Sun Sep 26, 10 9:26 pm Post subject:
Its a shame because they look like they should be, as does nightshade I take them off because i reckon that the honeysuckle does not flower as well the next year if they are still on when the season starts, could be just coincidence though.

mihto

Joined: 03 Feb 2008
Posts: 3273
Location: West coast of Norway

Posted: Sun Sep 26, 10 9:30 pm Post subject:
Ad children eying berries by the door or along the road: Have a look at this plant. Very common and deadly to children if more than a few berries are eaten. Solanum dulcamara They are everywhere around here and people just do not know them.

evie2

Joined: 29 May 2010
Posts: 2156
Location: Here

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 10 8:38 am Post subject: Re: honeysucke berries

gil wrote:

toggle wrote:

are they edible?

NO !!!!! Poisonous (except for some obscure variety, probably mentioned on the PFAF website)

Oh, I once had a neighbour who ate them and kept offering them to us

I've moved, wonder if she's still alive

linz71

Joined: 30 Jun 2008
Posts: 119
Location: N.E.Lincolnshire

Posted: Wed Sep 29, 10 5:43 am Post subject:
When I was little Mum had two huge pink honeysuckles at the front and back gates, I remember all the bees it attracted but no berries. I've now got a yellow honeysuckle that flowered for the first time this year and now is full of berries. It's well out of the way of any small children so I've left the berries alone for the birds.

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