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Aralia Spinosa also called devils walking stick because of the spines covering the trunk of this small tree, grows in my garden & I’ve read that the young leaves,shoots & berries are edible, so going to give them a try next spring, just wondered if anyone else has tried them.

It is related to the elder berry & suppose to be good for depression, which I don’t have lol

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I read that the berries are mildly poisonous.. some of the plant may be used to treat things like boils..

going by what I see, there's a lot of trees that you can eat the leaves when there young..i/my wife have 3 different varieties of them growing in the garden..all of them taste extremely bitter to me and would not touch them again..but some people like them..

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Weird,I read you could eat the ripe berrie but not unripe, it is related to the elderberry & I’ve made some excellent wine from them. So you have 3 different varieties of the devils walking stick ?

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when I saw the berries I thought they were elderberry.. I didn't save the link that said the berries were mildly poisonous...it actually said uncooked/raw were mildly poisonous.

the trees I have in my garden are not related to your post... they don't have thorns..I don't know the names in English but I will find out and read up on them..we going out now to the beach for the day.

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found the link..

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it was the only one I read..don't know what other ones say about it.

just found out the name of one of the trees I mentioned.. syzyglum.

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