New unidentified garden berry

[fruity01]

Hello,

Another unidentified berry on morning garden walk with daughter. Apologies for my lack of floral knowledge. Looks unfriendly.

[The Woodman]

It looks to me like a late strawberry that's gone "wrong" or aberrant. I've seen them sometimes in our garden like that. Don't take my word for it, there are some very knowledgeable folk here - one will be along soon.

[fruity01]

there are quite a few of them in that condition. not willing to do the taste test yet!

[King Edward]

Looks like Potentilla indica (=Duchesnea indica). Its grown as a garden plant. The fruits should be like a tasteless strawberry but not poisonous.

[Hedera]

It's a Potentilla fruit, same family as strawberry, and is edible.

[fruity01]

thank you all

[Dorts]

I agree with KE, Yellow-flowered Strawberry - Potentilla (Duchesnea) indica. Fruits are edible but not very flavoursome.
It was a Victorian curiosity plant that persists in and near gardens. Still occasionally available I believe.
Dorts.

[poschiavanus]

I know of fairly extensive patches of this growing well away from cultivation in an SSSI, and yet it was removed from an adjacent vice-county's plant list. Looking at the BSBI Atlas site I'd suspect it's under-recorded BSBI Maps Scheme: Hectad Map.

I've tried the fruits and they're pretty much tasteless.

Taxonomically quite interesting as it has yellow-flowers and strawberry-like fruits and thus made the Potentilla/Fragaria distinction look a bit arbitrary, which is presumably all are back in Potentilla.

[aeshna5]

I've found Potentilla indica to be quite a rampant plant in gardens + frequently naturalising in the London area.

Fruits look so tempting but the taste is just not worth the effort- bit like Arbutus unedo in that respect.

[The Woodman]

I'm going to have to leave these half ID's of mine to the experts!

I didn't think that the Arbutus I tried in the quad at Tullie House Mueum in Carlisle wasn't that bad! God forbid I should mention it here.