[NAFEX] Some Red Berries Edible

David W Hausmann wizard2468 at juno.com
Thu Dec 2 13:24:07 EST 2004


Dear Jerry,
	How's it going?  I just ordered Elderberries from the state and was
looking forward to enjoying them with the blackberries I planted 2 years
ago, but I cannot eat them raw?  Do you have to make jam or wine in order
to eat them?  It's not that I'm lazy....., well, yes it is!  hahaha
	Have a Good One!  Love, Peace and Perception

Wizard
Saint Louis, Missouri


On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 21:39:54 EST Jwlehman at aol.com writes:
> In a message dated 12/1/2004 9:30:44 AM US Eastern Standard Time, 
> bluestem_farm at juno.com writes:
> 
> > 
> > There is an old saying:
> > Berries red, have no dread
> > berries white, poisons sight.  
> > 
> >    Apparently whoever coined that jingle never ate the red berries 
> from 
> > Sambucus racemosa.  Who would suspect that elderberries might 
> contain cyanide?  
> > And then, there are white currants which are very edible.  There 
> are alot more 
> > red and white berry exceptions so whomever believes in that "old 
> saying" 
> > would pass up some good eating but soon die of poisoning.
> > 
> > 
> 
> Opened up some lively discussion, didn't I?  I suspect that saying 
> is very 
> localized and possibly dated before the importation of some species 
> such as the 
> yew.  Of course to almost every rule there are exceptions. 
> 
> My neighbor this fall told me the red fruited tree in their yard was 
> 
> poisonous and she was very surprised when I picked a few of the crab 
> apples and ate 
> them and walked away alive.  
> 
> Jerry

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