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Icey
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 Posted: 19:17 - 28 Jun 2006  Post subject: Any Gardeners? Cherry Tree?! |
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Hullo Greenfingered people,
Basically, I have a cherry tree in my lovely fruitful garden. However how do you tell if they are edible or ornamentall?
I want to know so I can start giving them away, instead of letting them go to waste.
Mucho Appreciated
 
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Posted: 19:23 - 28 Jun 2006  Post subject: |
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I'm not a gardener, but I do know of the Universal Edibility Test 
| Quote: | 1 Test only one part of a potential food plant at a time.
2 Separate the plant into its basic components - leaves, stems, roots, buds, and flowers.
3 Smell the food for strong or acid odors. Remember, smell alone does not indicate a plant is edible or inedible.
4 Do not eat for 8 hours before starting the test.
5 During the 8 hours you abstain from eating, test for contact poisoning by placing a piece of the plant part you are testing on the inside of your elbow or wrist. Usually 15 minutes is enough time to allow for a reaction.
6 During the test period, take nothing by mouth except purified water and the plant part you are testing.
7 Select a small portion of a single part and prepare it the way you plan to eat it.
8 Before placing the prepared plant part in your mouth, touch a small portion (a pinch) to the outer surface of your lip to test for burning or itching.
9 If after 3 minutes there is no reaction on your lip, place the plant part on your tongue, holding it there for 15 minutes.
10 If there is no reaction, thoroughly chew a pinch and hold it in your mouth for 15 minutes. Do not swallow.
11 If no burning, itching, numbing, stinging, or other irritation occurs during the 15 minutes, swallow the food.
12 Wait 8 hours. If any ill effects occur during this period, induce vomiting and drink a lot of water.
13 If no ill effects occur, eat 0.25 cup of the same plant part prepared the same way. Wait another 8 hours. If no ill effects occur, the plant part as prepared is safe for eating.
CAUTION
Test all parts of the plant for edibility, as some plants have both edible and inedible parts. Do not assume that a part that proved edible when cooked is also edible when raw. Test the part raw to ensure edibility before eating raw. The same part or plant may produce varying reactions in different individuals.
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| Posted: 19:38 - 28 Jun 2006 Post subject: |
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lmao! thats so absurd  its seems like a joke someones made up! "the national edibility test" haha, great stuff
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| Posted: 20:08 - 28 Jun 2006 Post subject: |
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The Wild Cherry (Prunus avium)
From what I can gather from the pictures.
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| Posted: 20:16 - 28 Jun 2006 Post subject: |
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Yes you can eat them. We eat ours - when the birds don't get them first |
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| Posted: 09:02 - 29 Jun 2006 Post subject: |
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Feel free Mr H I don't eat cherrys so they might aswell go to a good home 
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| Posted: 10:15 - 29 Jun 2006 Post subject: |
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We have the same tree, the birds get to ours long before they're ripe.  |
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| Posted: 10:20 - 29 Jun 2006 Post subject: |
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I must be bloody lucky then, because there is SO much fruit on it!
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| Posted: 10:40 - 29 Jun 2006 Post subject: |
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The best way to eat cherries from an English tree is to stew them. Our climate esures that they're not very sweet raw, heating them provides a catalyst for the carbs to break down, and you can be sneaky and add a little extra sugar.  |
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