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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
I'm sure there are some of those berberis on the canal bank...the other week when I took the four children on a nature wander, they pointed some berries out that looked a lot like those......Spindles thought they were olives......he likes olives( a cosmopolitan child) I told him on no account to try and eat them as I didn't know what they were. I didn't fancy 4 hours in A&E while he had his stomach pumped.
I will look more carefully now and snap them if I can find them again,
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Could have been deadly nightshade??
Deadly Nightshade Irrational Geographic
Or early sloes if they were on a tree. These would have bloom like the berberis berries whereas the belladonna ones are very shiny.