Late Fruit

Lovely autumn colour mix in your first pic, Siris. The olives look interesting, especially the reddish purple colouring! Plus the fascinating Billiardiera! I love the colour! It’s a new one to me.

Come on Siris, have a little bite in the interests of education~and do let us know. I've tasted both Mahonia and fuchsia berries after hearing they are edible. Have to say that neither was very tasty- a bit insipid really.

edible just mans you can eat it with out being poisoned not that it is tasty! but I would love to know what they taste like. ever tried fuchsia? so disappointing.

Sorry Folks, I've taken all the seed out of the capsules of the Billarderia to send to a seed distribution scheme!
Thanks YorkshireLass & SBG, I don't taste plants in the name of education or science. There are masses of plants that have 'edible' bits, but that statement needs qualifying. Runner beans seeds are toxic in quantity if eaten raw!

Well I am living proof that one fuchsia berry or one Mahonia berry have absolutely no discernible effect on the health.
Certainly not worth eating in quantity unless you were starving...

Yorkslass, that's what the Kenyans do with Lathyrus sativus, (White Pea, toxic to humans, which is used primarily for feeding cattle unless in drought conditions and nothing else will grow).

You mean they just eat one? Hardly seems worth it?

Well I'm a wuss and admit I never try any of the berries on my shrubs, did try a passion fruit years back, one was enough, never tempted again, lol, I have noticed how quickly the birds are stripping the berries in my garden this year, wondering if they know something we don't..

well folklore does have it that a heavy crop of berries means a hard winter!

first hard frost today too.

None here yet Seaburn but seems lots of places have, I've got most tender things in their winter quarters ready though, we've been having clear skies and bight sunny days this week...........

Here in the warm South, second day with frost this morning, lovely cold sunny crisp day but seems warmer than those damp drizzly windy days we had in Oct, when the temperature read higher on our out door thermometer. Damp gets into the old bones!

It's nice that you have olives on your tree. I wonder if you'll be picking them ...
Interesting to see the Billarderia flowers. I've never seen them before.

Thank you Hywel. In the first pic, on the right side is an evergreen shrub called Vestia foetida which has similar shaped yellow flowers, but the leaves are smelly if bruised.

Thank you :)