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The shrub is very established..

Lori

By Lori


The shrub is very established..

I'm sure it's been on the property for decades...pruned out all the dead stuff and it's blooming great. Birds love the red berries ...but I tasted them and they are the most bitter terrible toxic tasting things I've ever put in my mouth!



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Beautiful colour Lori...

1 Jun, 2013

amy
Amy
 

I don't recognise it at all Lori ,it's a pretty flower your pruning obviously did it good , If I come up with anything I'll let you know the birds enjoying the berries might help to identify it , but you shouldn't go round trying to eat things if you don't know what they are ! you will poison yourself :o( I ate some mushrooms once I didn't know what they were I left a note on the kitchen table just in case I was ill in the night then they would know what I had eaten !

1 Jun, 2013

 

I was a little concerned after trying these ..but I took such a little bit and it was so terrible that I spat it out very quickly...but was also surprised how long the nasty bitterness stayed on my tongue...gahhhh.
You, on the otherhand, are very brave....we have tons of fungi about but I only eat what I buy at the grocery. Have dozens of photos of the fall fungi and did some research for a blog..but got bogged down trying to ID them all. It seemed that just about everything growing on the hill was poisonous or suspect! lol....

3 Jun, 2013



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