An abundance of wild and cultivated produce ready to pick from our Abington Lodge site. Can you identify them all? Zaps for correctly naming the least obscure little round fruit 
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I see Rowan berry at the bottom, and quince at the top, but very curious about the one where we can see the inside. I think we have a tree around the corner with that myriad of bright red fruits, but I don't know the name. Are they edible?
Oh it's not the inside...? Could it be a variety of rose hip?
The leaves look like it could be a type of citrus... The plot thickens...
More info tomorrow ser, you will be delighted @. can atest. Well done on the others although I initially thought the quince was a pear, then felt it furry
Quince, apples, haws, medlars, sorbus π. Might be able to send you some trees if you have the space for some π
To be fair, I knew the Swedish word for Rowan berry (rΓΆnnbΓ€r) and the French word for quince (coing), but I had to look up the English words. Every day is a chance to learn! A friend suggested to just learn the Latin names instead as they "work" in every language π
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Openarse!!!
I mean, screw the sats, you have me hanging over nails here π I need to know what that possibly citrus, could be rosebuds looks either delicious or deadly fruit is!!!
Oh man! I just crawled out of my hole after plebbing too hard at @Bury St Edmunds Bitcoin π€£
These fruits are medlar! #openarse
A bit like me, they have to be left on the ground to rot for a couple of months before they're palatable but after that taste like dates and honey!
Well I am sorry to inform the medlars, but they are now forever openarse fruits!!!
In Latin "apertus clunis"
"clunes apertae" is acceptable too, or so I've heard
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Loads of room! Either in the old orchard or at the 'meadow' where we are putting some oaklets in soon
I will have a look what I have left....likely some perry pears
Are medlars and quince worth growing? I was thinking about planting one of each this spring.
I donβt eat jelly or preserves.
I would say no then, medlar tastes really nice but you need to blet it and its a faff to eat with seeds etc unless you make it into something. Quince is less faff to eat but is less tasty.
If you want something really tasty that delicious straight from the plant its a Chilean guava. However I am guessing you might not be able to grow them, even here they unfortunately died from freak dry cold event with no snow after surviving far colder.
This is what I was thinking as well.
Chilean guavas grow well in my region π
And pineapple guavas also grow well but some years they get knocked out by a particularly bad cold snap.
Similar to here then but likely far more sun, you can probably do hardy avocados too and kiwi too.
There is a lot of hardy avocados experiments going on around here
Fuzzy kiwi is tricky with ripening in time before frost, they work great in the urban areas
Hardy kiwi berries of course thrive here.
I have hardy kiwi here i have got kiwis off it once or twice. The large 'Jenny' kiwi sadly died with the Chilean guava. Here they are extremely sensitive to frost in flowering and leaf emergence so i might be taking them out eventually. Akebia does well here but it has a weird bitter after taste for me. There are other plants in Japan and Patagonia you can look into growing I am sure. Luma and Chilean hazel are probably worth trying they arent particularly fast growing so they got a little lost here and crowded out by other things in the end.
A buddy of mine has a Jenny and good fruit was still hanging on the vines last week.