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nootka

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Hi, all!

My husband brought these home from a friend's house yesterday. He had a sprig of leaves but I thought I'd post a pic of the fruit to see if anyone knows the true name. A neighbor of ours had these when I was a small child and I used to love/hate to eat them...if you've tasted them you know why. Now I wonder were they poisonous? *LOL* I didn't seem to have any ill effects from them.

The people that had the tree-sized bush didn't know what it was, have owned the property for 65+ years and understood that a Chinese immigrant planted them which he had brought with him by rail in the 1800s.

They are uber-sour, these ones, but the others from my childhood seemed a little more sweetish in contrast with a strange texture. They are about half an inch to an inch long and fragile with a jellyish consistency. The pit is long, pointed, ivory colored and has grooves in it.

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Hope you can clear up the mystery...

THANKS!

Liz
 
Hi Liz -- I am really not sure, but I would be very careful about eating them. We used to have nNghtshade around and it had red berries on it that looked pretty tempting, but of course it is deadly
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- I am leery of any red fruit that I do not know specifically if it is OK because there are a lot of poisonous red berries out there.

Stacy
 
Hi Liz, I'm thinking they might be Goji berries? Goji berries have a sour/sweet taste, are used primarily in China and are grown on bushels. Kinda looks like them to me.
 
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That is what my husband thought (Goji berries).

We ate a few, my youngest at some and the people that live there say they have been eating them all their lives.

I am finding something similar on Google that says it is a brush cherry...?

Of course my youngest threw up this morning, so now I am even more suspicious!!!

Thanks, everyone...keep the replies coming if you recognize them.

Liz
 

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