{"id":482,"date":"2014-08-25T09:34:14","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T09:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablelife.spiderstudio.co.uk\/?p=482"},"modified":"2014-08-25T09:34:14","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T09:34:14","slug":"darwins-barberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/freefood\/darwins-barberry\/","title":{"rendered":"Darwin’s Barberry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Darwin’s Barberry is a plant very similar to the Mahonia<\/a> and also produces a fruit that is extremely similar in flavour and uses.<\/p>\n

In fact, you may often come across a Barberry bush and mistake it for a Mahonia because they look so similar. You won’t come to any harm if you do, just bear in mind the differences. While the Mahonia berries are clustered into a grape like bunch across a stem, the Barberry hangs in bunches instead. The leaves are also the same as the Mahonia leaves, but tend to be much smaller, like a miniature version of the Mahonia. The Darwin’s Barberry bush is more commonly seen used as a hedge, whereas the Mahonia is a bit more of a stand alone plant.<\/p>\n

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Name:<\/strong> Darwin’s Barberry<\/p>\n

Location:<\/strong> The berry of this plant, is typically found around early autumn in a plant that looks very similar to the Mahonia but smaller and often as part of a hedge.<\/p>\n

Months:<\/strong> August, September<\/p>\n

Edible Parts:<\/strong> Berries<\/p>\n

Non-Edible Parts:<\/strong> Anything else<\/p>\n

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Darwin’s Barberry can be used very much in the same way as the Mahonia (Oregon Grape) to make jams and wine and perhaps even cordials. As a fresh fruit it is edible but a bit too tart to be a treat so is best used cooked\/preserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Darwin’s Barberry is a plant very similar to the Mahonia and also produces a fruit that is extremely similar in flavour and uses. In fact, you may often come across a Barberry bush and mistake it for a Mahonia because they look so similar. You won’t come to any harm if you do, just bear … Continue reading Darwin’s Barberry<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,12,4,23],"tags":[118,119,103],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-august","category-forage","category-freefood","category-september","tag-barberry","tag-darwins-barberry","tag-mahonia"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}