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'Purple fruited' in a Google search for crab apples brings up lots of purple leaved variants,
but few with pruple fruit and green leaves.

As others have said, it looks a lot like an apple tree leaf or a small plum. You should NEVER eat something you're not sure about, but to my eye (combination of the shape/size and skin on the fruit and the shiny/waxy finish on the leaf) that does look like an edible fruit. Or at least it won't be poisonous, it might well be bitter tasting. I'd break one open and have a look and a sniff. Then if you're happy with it, have a taste.

I found a few fungi in the local park last night

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Picked about 2kilos of blackberries over lunch break.

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Thanks for the thoughts about the mystery fruit, I did pick one and gave it a quick squeeze and it wasn’t a soft flesh but got distracted herding children out of the road.

Next time I pass I’ll grab a few to dissect.

Chicken of the Wood across the road from my house. Not going to pick it due to car fumes but a lovely specimen.

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First sloes and damsons for me. Only had space to carry what would fit in a rear pocket

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Up the apples and pears something something scrumping

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Anyone know what these are?

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They look a bit poisonous to me. Sorry, that’s not very helpful. Possibly.

Can anyone recommend a good book on Uk foraging. I’ve got Wild Food but it’s more a load of recipes rather than a guide to what you can find and when, how to ID etc. I have one for fungi but I’m thinking wider.

This is old and fairly hippy-ish but considered a classic:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Food-Free-Richard-Mabey/dp/0007438478

Cheers, will take a look.

+1 Mabey

Found this in the sand yesterday

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Identification for this? In the garden.

Didn't mean that to be at rhb.

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Didn't mean that to be at rhb.

Good job as I haven't a clue.

Cherry laurel?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prunus_laurocerasus

Caution the 'berries' will do you no good.

Yeah lots of those up the south end of the Surrey canal path by Peckham library. Do not eat.

not edible but quite interesting glowing moss in rabbit hole

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Good job as I haven't a clue.

Yeah, because moocher hasn't given you one. Don't people know how Plant Tag of Plant is played properly? :)

Now you want to research everything about glowing moss on the Internet ... #someta

Found some nice white shrooms in the park this morning and cooked them for breakfast. Partner refused to participate as she has memories of her neighbours in southern Italy eating the wrong (right?) shrooms and tripping balls so badly they were taken away in an ambulance in restraints.

Partner refused to participate as she has memories of her neighbours in southern Italy eating the wrong (right?) shrooms and tripping balls so badly they were taken away in an ambulance in restraints.

It can be much worse than that even.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/poisonous-mushrooms-put-horse-whisperer-author-in-hospital-917198.html

I did visit the wiki page...