A berry so shiny it s irresistible and inedible birds are drawn to the blue berries of the tropical pollia condensata plant.
Are marble berries edible.
Pollia condensata sometimes called the marble berry is a perennial herbaceous plant with stoloniferous stems and hard dry shiny round metallic blue fruit.
Hips can be bunched or solitary on spiny or more usually hook thorned arching stems.
It can also be used for pickling.
Hawthorn may haws crataegus monogyna a familiar spiny hedgerow shrub with lobed leaves and flat topped edible red berries haws.
The blue colour of the fruit created by structural coloration is the most intense of any known biological material.
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Scientists are just as intrigued with the small shiny fruits.
These purple berries are approximately 1 4 1 inch 5 15 mm in diameter 37.
The fruit pulp is edible when ripe though sour and slightly bitter.
European settlers in australia use the fruit for jams and pies.
It is a popular ingredient in aboriginal cuisine.
It is found in forested regions of africa.
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It can be made into an edible paste by squashing it into a bark trough or other suitable receptacle filled with water.
It grows 3 26 feet 1 8 meters high and produces edible fruit known as saskatoon berries.