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Are Fuschia Berries Eatable?
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Posted by Nightshademoon0 z6 OH (My Page) on Mon, Jun 27, 05 at 17:14
| I was just wondering if anyone knew whether Fuschia berries were eatable or not. |
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Yes Alicia,
The fruits are edible, they are a bit tasteless though - Kath :) |
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| Hi From what I understand the berries are quite insipid although not having tasted them and not having the inclination to try I will have to take the words of others as true. I have in the past however seen a recipe for 'Fuchsia Jam', I believe it was published in one of the British Fuchsia Society Annuals some years ago. Tight.... |
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| I have never eaten them, but my Golden Retriever "Cheyenne" loves them. Last Summer she was always sniffing around the Fuschia's waiting for the Berries to be ripened enough for her to pull them off and eat them. I never even thought about eating them until I saw her doing it; I watched her to make sure she didn't get sick and she was fine. She Loves all types of Plants; makes me nervous though, one thing is for certain if she was ever to get lost in the woods I know she could survive on Plants & Bugs for a while; she loves to eat bugs as well; the bigger and crunchier the more she enjoys them. |
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| I happen to like them... they're sweet, with a mild pomegranate taste. I'm using them to flavor vodka. |
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| I have read that the berries from F. boliviana are sold in South America as we here might sell strawberries. My F. boliviana is a baby, but one day . . . Jeri Jennings
Coastal Ventura Co., Southern CA |
RE: Are Fuschia Berries Eatable?
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- Posted by Still z23 CA (My Page) on
Fri, Aug 26, 05 at 22:57
| You can do anything with fucshia berries that you can do with blackberries. I've candied them and used them in ice cream. I think they taste like peppery grapes. |
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| In my experience, the blacker the fruit, the sweeter they are |
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| Perhaps we should qualify our overall impressions with what species we're eating. The Fuchsia regia fruit that I eat is fairly sweet with almost no subacid note. I would compare the taste to a blueberry without the tang. No peppery or sour taste at all, and moderately flavorful. A little selective breeding could make these wonderful. |
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- Posted by Cady 6b/Sunset34 MA (My Page) on
Thu, Nov 17, 05 at 10:05
| Well, you learn something new every day on Garden Web. Never knew the berries were edible, but now I'll be "harvesting" my "fruit. |
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| What an amazing discovery. My dear friend Pat told me that one could eat the berries. So being adventurous and having a load of Fuchsia plants growing on the verandah in berrie, I gave them a go. They were delicious. They had a slight taste of grape and fruit salad, no peppery taste at all. I was thinking, before I knew anything about them, that I would make some jam from them. The problem is, getting enough of the fruit to make jam. Anyway I certainly did not get sick at all from them, and enjoyed the new experience, of a new taste. I highly recommend them. I am sure there are probably lots of recipes available for people to experiment with them. |
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| I was looking at this thread wondering, what are those? and should I cut them off. I purchased a Dark Eyes fuschia this summer and it is doing well and continues to constantly bloom. I was picking off the flowers, just to look at, but on some the flowers dropped off and there was this ovoid thing behind the spent blossom. I left it on wondering if it would bloom again, but hey, this must be the "fuschia berry." I'm gonna wait for my Dark Eyes to stop blooming taste one and do the vodka thing suggested above. |
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