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blowin · Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 3:53 am Post subject: fuschia berries

The fruit of this common bush is edible . I have only tried them once . The texture was quite unusual , sort of crisp , very nice but with absolutely no flavour .
I am told that some varieties produce sweet fruit . These tend to be the ones with the hybridised / fancy flowers .
And I'm after a couple of cuttings .... Wink

wayland · Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 1171 Location: Campile. Wexford

I have heard thet they are fine to eat. My O/H has many such bushes. I must do the rounds. Wink

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GB · Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Posts: 317 Location: Ireland

having worked in a garden center I can reliably say that every bl**dy color and variety produces a different tasting berry Rolling Eyes

some are really nice, some are totally tasteless and some have a very unpleasant aftertaste. Your best bet is to taste every bush you come across, altho I did find that the uglier the flower (the big frilly white ones spring to mind) the nicer the berry. And most garden centers wont be too worried about a branch or two wandering out with you. But do try to ask first Wink

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blowin · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 1:46 am Post subject:

Just bringing this back to the top as I would really like to get hold of a cutting from one of the tasty ones .
Not that I am suggesting we descend on the garden centres like a swarm of locusts , of course !

GB · Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Posts: 317 Location: Ireland

why not?

And when the berries are ripe why not start visiting a few stately homes and gardens? Just sample as you go and if you find one to your taste just ask a member of staff (here I laugh histaricly Rolling Eyes

) for a cutting. I have never been refused yet although finding a person to ask is harder than finding a berry thats nice Wink

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Moonwaves · Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 80 Location: Dusseldorf

I'm obviously very unobservant because I've never noticed berries on a fuchsia before. Have smallish one with light pink/dark pink middle in the back garden and a dark pink/very dark pink middle in front. When do the berries appear? Am happy to volunteer my little brother to taste for you and send cuttings if you want. Can you post twigs?
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Camile · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 1:37 pm Post subject:

We've got massive ones around here ..

can't remember at what time of the year they fruit though .

I'll try them tonight and see what they taste like ..

Camile

GB · Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Posts: 317 Location: Ireland

am happy to volunteer my little brother as taste tester Shocked

late summer and autumn are the times for berries and make sure they are ripe as they have a base of tongue gack sort of after-taste if not ripe

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