Prunus Avium
Common right across Europe the gean or wild cherry is the mother of all cultivated cherries since they are all derived from this tree. Because of this, one can expect a big amount of difference between the fruit. They can come be from acidic, harsh and almost not fit to eat to sweet, succulent and beautiful. The only way that you can really tell is by tasting them.
The fruit is ready around June, be sure to pick them quickly though for the birds might beat you to them. If you have excess wild cherries, the good way to use them is by making cherry brandy.
Fragaria Vesca
Fragaria Vesca is a wild strawberry that can be found in woodlands, hillsides and in exposed land in and around the British Isles. Commonly, you will find wild specimen or garden escapees. The month of August is when these wild strawberries ripen but depending on how much sunlight the plant gets, they can be ripe from June onwards.
Use it the way you would use a domestic strawberry but keep in mind that the wild strawberry’s flavour is sweeter and more intense.
Rubus Fructicosus
Rubus Fructicosus or Raspberries are one of the finest wild fruits you will ever find. It i common as an escapee from hardens or as a wild plant around woodlands and waste ground. The raspberry is often more intense in flavour than the bloated farm berries which they are capable or replacing in any recipes.
Normally ripe in June or July, stragglers can sometimes be found remaining on the plant until August or September. Just keep going back to the plant through the season and see to it that you look under the leaves to find the delicious red fruit.
Rubus Caesius
You’ll find the dewberry spreading along open ground and quickly colonizing railway embankments and the likes. The problem with this berry though, is that when they are ripe, they’re very hard to pick in any quantity without squashing them so, it is actually a good idea to eat as you pick.
The dewberry is very much like a blackberry in appearance but you seldom find them with as much drupelets, that’s the individual berry, as you get on blackberries. The main difference between the two however, is that the dewberry is powdery in appearance and, it has the same mustiness as you get from plums or grapes.
Some suggest cutting the berry on the stem and freezing it then use it like a cherry in a cocktail.
Ribes Uva-crispa
The wild-gooseberry can be commonly found in woodlands and hedgerows. This species has a familiar green fruit but you can also find yellow or red berries.
The fruit can be used like the way its domestic relative is used; picked early for jams and later on for pudding. The plants have ferocious spines so when picking them; wear a pair of thick gloves!
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