Deep black shiny berries
Photo: Arne Ader
Translation: Liis
Bird cherry
Bird cherry Harilik toomingas Padus avium
From the flowers that were pollinated when the bird cherry flowered black and glossy berries have ripened.
Bird cherry fruits are edible, sour-tasting, with a high Vitamin C content and quite beneficial for the organism, rich in tannins, making make the mouth feel „thick“ on eating them.
Each fruit contains a large drupe with a rock-hard shell – „seed“ in common talk. The content of the so-called seed is poisonous. But if we happen to swallow such a seed “stone” nothing horrible will happen – the „stone“ does not disintegrate in our stomach.
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