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20-09-2008, 01:33 PM
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| | | id of these wild berries please
noticed these wild berries while out walking today and wondered if someone could identify these for me thanks
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20-09-2008, 01:37 PM
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looks like lords and ladies - arum maculatum, if they were growing straight out of the ground. |
20-09-2008, 04:55 PM
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Originally Posted by diggleken  looks like lords and ladies - arum maculatum, if they were growing straight out of the ground. | Agree it is this- also known as Cuckoo Pint or Wild Arum. Very decorative but poisonous to us. |
20-09-2008, 05:49 PM
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lords and ladies indeed. don't eat them  - they make you die!  |
20-09-2008, 05:51 PM
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And just to point out as i always do with any thread regarding Lords and ladies / Cuckoo Pint...
Its 'pint' to rhyme with 'mint' (actually short for 'pintle') and not Pint as in beer!........OK !  lol 
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20-09-2008, 06:06 PM
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I know what you mean. Its supposed to be called cuckoo pint because of its resemblence to something on males   |
20-09-2008, 08:10 PM
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Originally Posted by KeenTeen17 I know what you mean. Its supposed to be called cuckoo pint because of its resemblence to something on males | Indeed...hence one of its more humorous vernacular names of 'Willy Lily'
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20-09-2008, 08:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Dan Salter And just to point out as i always do with any thread regarding Lords and ladies / Cuckoo Pint...
Its 'pint' to rhyme with 'mint' (actually short for 'pintle') and not Pint as in beer!........OK ! lol | Except that a huge number of people pronounce it to rhyme with pint of beer!
And I have never come across anyone other than Dan who pronounces it the other way!
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Originally Posted by KeenTeen17 I know what you mean. Its supposed to be called cuckoo pint because of its resemblence to something on males | what acne... |
20-09-2008, 08:53 PM
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Originally Posted by rural jim noticed these wild berries while out walking today and wondered if someone could identify these for me thanks
jim | That's a great shot, jim (just to raise the tone a little  )
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