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When I first saw it I thought mayapple but the fruits are yellow not red. But it seems mayapple like.
Jernsaxa [OP]July 25, 2023
It's a very good guess, 'cause istara found out it was Himalayan Mayapple :) I'd never even heard of Mayapples
MaryDyerJuly 24, 2023
I uploaded the pic into my plant identifying app and it’s telling me it’s Mayapple. The app is very accurate but in this case I’m not buying it. Not enough points on your leaves.
Jernsaxa [OP]July 24, 2023
Thanks ☺️ I looked up the mayapple's fruit, and in google pictures it looks yellow and more round. So I think you're right it's not mayapple.
istaraJuly 24, 2023
So I googled "mayapple with red fruit" and something called Himalayan mayapple comes up. The fruits are pointy rather than rounded at the ends (which I think I can see in your photo).
It's related to regular mayapple apparently, both plants are in the barberry family.
Mayapple: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podophyllum_peltatum
Himalayan mayapple: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinopodophyllum
Don't eat it ;)
Jernsaxa [OP]July 25, 2023
That's it! That's exactly it! Thanks ☺️ Too bad it's not edible, those fruits looked so inviting. But it's pretty ☺️
CaeruleaJuly 25, 2023
There are a lot of fruits/berries that are poisonous to humans, but are meant to look inviting to birds (which they are not toxic to, and who are their seed-spreaders). Be very careful with red berries you don't know the species of, many of them are poisonous to us (other colous too, but red particularly invites birds).
One time I was in a forest with a steep mountain wall to one side. That wall was littered here and there with various plants that have red berries. :)
Jernsaxa [OP]July 25, 2023
Don't worry, I have many years of foraging experience and would never eat anything I'm not 100% sure of ☺️ This was in a medicine garden, you know the kind you pay to visit. Many medicinal plants are poisonous, but weirdly this one had no sign. Even though it's not a native plant or common in our gardens.
That sounds like a beautiful place ☺️ it's actually quite impressive how many plants manage to grow such places.
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ThelnebriatiJuly 24, 2023
I think its a Hellebore (possibly Helleborus niger, or Christmas Rose) all parts of the plant are poisonous, and the sap can cause skin irritation.
Jernsaxa [OP]July 24, 2023
Hmm, I've never seen them get berries. My mum has some. I'll read more about them ☺️
[Deleted]July 24, 2023
Helloborous usually has 5 leaflets & skinnier.
I also don't think it's the may apple I know in the great lakes, but it does look like it's in the mandrake family.
Ooh, how do you see it's in the mandrake family?
I would look for fruit bearing Mandrake plants Plus your locality in Google images and see what you can find. I've never seen one with a red fruit, but I live in Northeast Ohio so hard to say :-) it's a big family
Just checked mandrake and it's nightshade family. Is that what you mean? Sadly I can't upload two pics, but I have a better pic of the fruit, which doesn't look nightshade like where the stalk attaches. But I can see where the thought came from :) However, Istara just found Himalayan Mayapple, which it is. Never heard of it before :D
Location might not help, since this is not a wild plant. It's likely to be an import.
Ha! Somehow I missed that😂