Good morning, Tangled fam! Wishing everyone a happy Friday! ☀️
This is blackthorn (Prunus spinosa) A thorny shrub growing 3–4 meters tall, with dense branches.
Its fruit is a bluish-purple, hazy stone fruit that ripens in autumn. 💙 Its taste is tart and sour when raw, but after the first frosts (being touched by frost), it becomes sweeter and softer. I tasted it yesterday; it was delicious and sweet.
Its flowers and berries are rich in vitamin C.
It is used to make jam, syrup, sauce, tea blends, and valuable brandy.
that frost bit is the whole blackthorn story. Raw it puckers, one cold night and the same dusty berry goes soft and sweet. Straight off the bush yesterday, or were you already thinking what to do with the rest of the cluster? #beautifulnature