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Hart of the Wud

We went for a little walk in some interesting edge areas of the city today and discovered what seems to be an old orchard (Streuobst) on public land between a forest, a parking strip and a busy road. We found a few varieties of apples, pears, mirabelle plums, hazel nuts, sea buckthorn, whitebeam and a ton of blackberries. Most things weren't quite ripe but some heavy winds knocked down a lot of apples so we filled a bag with what we found on the ground. Currently busy making pie, chutney and apple sauce. #foraging

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az

@praxeology can you eat the whitebeam? I saw some the other day but the internet said they were ornamental.

Hart of the Wud

@az "Sorbus Aria" is called Mehlbeere (literally meal-berry) in German because it was often dried and milled, then added to flour. This is according to a favorite new book "Unsere essbaren Bäume und Sträucher"¹.
I only had a little taste out of curiosity and I can't report any side effects yet. But I know there are a bunch of varieties called Whitebeam so some of them might be inedible.

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@az "Sorbus Aria" is called Mehlbeere (literally meal-berry) in German because it was often dried and milled, then added to flour. This is according to a favorite new book "Unsere essbaren Bäume und Sträucher"¹.
I only had a little taste out of curiosity and I can't report any side effects yet. But I know there are a bunch of varieties called Whitebeam so some of them might be inedible.

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