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  1. 10th March 2009, 06:18 PM #1
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    Okay all you botany experts.. I need help on some berries

    At lunch time in the city today, came across a beautiful tree with gorgeous pink berries on it. Naturally I thought of the goats & what a tasty desert it would make for them. That was until everyone I talked to gave me a dose of scaremongering, saying coloured berries are usually poisionous. I presumed goats would know by smell what not to eat ... but then again ... they aren't the brightest sparks ...

    So I took some photos, anybody got any ideas what they are & if indeed they are poisonous? (I tried a little nibble on the train on the way home & seem okay).





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    Lilly pillies, yes you can eat them
    They are quite souwer tasting though
    Just to make shore, what did they taste like? tangy sought of taste?

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    Yep, Lilly pillies.

    The berries can get almost purple in Vic. Currawongs love them and you can make jam with them.
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    Acnema smithii, yer Lily pillies:
    Natives but on the 46degree day in Melb these were one of the plants most effected, they fried.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 953 View Post
    Acnema smithii, yer Lily pillies:
    Natives but on the 46degree day in Melb these were one of the plants most effected, they fried.
    Cheers Dean.

    Slight mix up of the spelling of the genus- it should be Acmena
    They are generally a rainforest plant, so yep they would struggle in 46 degree dry heat.

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    Quote Originally Posted by long stroke View Post
    Lilly pillies, yes you can eat them
    They are quite souwer tasting though
    Just to make shore, what did they taste like? tangy sought of taste?

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    Not really sour, but very floughry (as in yukky not crisp apple floughrhy and certainly not "flowerly" as it nice & sweet & flowerly, if you know what I mean.

    They have white flesh inside covering a small dark brown seed.
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    Thanks for all your great replies, I'm going to go & feed them desert now!
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    Yep, the little rascals love them! Damn, wish I'd broght more home. I'll have to do some more city foraging lunchtime tomorrow! They get ever so excited when they get new goodies to munch on!
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    Quote Originally Posted by 350RRC View Post
    you can make jam with them.
    I can't. My jam turned out to be more like toffee. I think I used a bit too much sugar.

    My 3 trees haven't come into fruit this year though. The last 2 years have been boomers though & about 20-30 new trees came up from the seeds.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scouse View Post
    I can't. My jam turned out to be more like toffee. I think I used a bit too much sugar.
    I'll see if I can find the recipe. It pre-dates the more recent bush tucker fashionistas.

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