Australian snack.

Not sure where to put this post.
Anyway..Today I was talking to an Aussie who is over for a while living locally, and he and his family said they have been snacking on hedgerow berries and could I ID them.
This is the actual bush and berries....

Laurel if I'm not mistaken?...Are they edible? They said they were lovely and sweet!

 

Hey Nick are they still alive ???? :D :D :D

 

ignore what i just said cant believe imm so stupid

 

As alive as an Aussie can be :D
But I suggested they don't eat any more. I remember my Granny boiling them down, adding Goose grease to the liquor and then using the stuff as a hand cream!

 

As far as I know, Laurel berries are poisonous but I've never eaten one to know if they are sweet! :eek:

Also, the Portuguese laurel, Prunus lusitanica, has cyanide in its leaves and should not be burnt.

 

I picked this info up from a web site about poisonous plants

The common Cherry Laurel (below)- Our garden doctor service was recently asked if the 'cherries' on her evergreen cherry laurel were ok to eat. Good thing she asked first - they are quite poisonous. (A problem here, is that the edible cherry, and the laurels all share the same family name. They are all Prunus!) A bigger problem is the nickname - Cherry Laurel.



They look the same to me --- do you agree?

Platty