Mountain Ash
This is the Mountain Ash tree growing in my back yard. When I moved in here in spring, the tree was blooming with lovely white flowers. The flowers lasted a few weeks, turned brown, and now the tree is heavily laden with bright orange berries. Of course, because I'm a foodie, I wondered if the berries were edible. A quick Google search revealed to me that they are in fact edible, that birds love them, but that the berries are extremely acidic and require cooking first. One site says that the berries make "a scrumptious" jelly.
It is doubtful I'll make Mountain Ash jelly, but I had to see for myself how acidic the berries were, especially because one of the reasons I don't like tomatoes is that I find them too acidic.
Let's just say that tomatoes are positively sweet and luscious in comparison to these little orange berries. They tasted like pure pine resin.
Perhaps I'll cook some up one of these days. I have time. The berries hang around most of the winter.
4 comments:
What an absolutely gorgeous bush! I have some sort of orange berry bush which the birds are grateful for in the winter - but haven't tasted them! My bush though has thorns. This bush of yours looks so soft and inviting - it really is lovely.
Well, maybe you can make some kind of paste with the berries and put it into balls and hang it about for the birds. Uh, I guess the tree has already made an available feeding situation - oops.
The heat here is killing or at least wounding flowers - or I am not at my usual green thumb stage -
I'll bet as a jelly they would be quite tasty, considering how much sugar goes into jams and jellies.
Gardenia: actually, it's a tree, but for some reason this huge section of it has drooped to the ground.
Mr. A: It would take A LOT of sugar to sweeten these things up!
Thanks for tasting them for me. Now I'll wonder no more how they taste and know I never have to try them.
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