SC - juniper berries - long

[Par Leijonhufvud]

On Mon, 22 May 2000 allilyn at juno.com wrote:

> bushes? I can't stand even the smell of them myself, but they're common
> landscaping plants around here.<<
> 
> I asked a neighbor who has a landscaping business.  He thought some
> junipers might have poison berries, didn't know about mine.  You'd need
> to investigate juniper species very carefully before trying this.

Juniperus communis is eminently edible. Remember that the berries
(actually not berries, but a kind of "berry-cones") take three years to
ripen. Pick them when they are bluish black.

/UlfR

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Par Leijonhufvud                                      parlei at algonet.se
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