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Cazakstan
Need someone to help ID some local forage.
The little mini plum things going blue. I’ve been putting them in gin off this particular tree/bush/shrub for years, but are they sloes or damsons? They go completely blue and have a small stone in them. Tree/bush/shrub has no thorns, but none of what I’ve assumed were sloe bushes round here have thorns and thought they had big horrible long thorns.
The berries. This is a big bushy tree. Are they mulberries? Ripe ones taste like a cross between a blackberry and a raspberry but it’s more of a tree than a vine.
The other thing. There’s shitloads of them and I don’t think I’ve ever noticed them there before. Them’s those things I’ve seen on here you have to partially rot or something (bletting?) aren’t they? Edit: medlars, p.22?