Did I Poison Friend 2 nd Time ?

[bobm]

During their annual winter migration to Cal. the Cedar Waxwings gorge themselves on pyrocantha berries , get drunk and crash into everything and anything that they fly into in their drunken stuper. Since Cal. has too many restrictive laws on the books as it is... Captain Moonbeam ( current governor) should get a law passed for the Waxwings to limit their consumption of pyrocantha berries to a dozen or face a fine and jail time so that they can be identified as not only true drunks and hensforth true jailbirds too .

 

[thistlebloom]

Goji berry maybe?

 

[Smart Red]

I have never seen a red or orangy-red gooseberry. Here are the berries on a red-leafed barberry shrub. I also have a green-leafed barberry. These oblong berries are a solid opaque coloring in orange or red-ish.

My gooseberries are green when sour, turning to dark blue/purple when they are ripe. They are always round and have an almost transparent fruit covering where you can almost see the seeds inside. Gooseberry leaves are also larger and more lobed than barberries.

My chickens will eat either berry with impunity and delight.

 

[Smart Red]

@Nyboy, thank you for the stone and the pink daffodil bulbs. You are a great gardening friend and I appreciate having you on this site. Regretfully,right now I think I will kindly suggest you NOT send any holiday snacks to me.

 

[Nyboy]

LOL it's only when it comes to food problems happen. The berries look like thistles goji !! But goji arent poisonous right.

 

[thistlebloom]

No, but that doesn't mean the berry she ate at your house made her sick. It is a nightshade, and maybe she has a sensitivity to that.

It's hard for me to believe that a single berry could cause such a violent reaction without something else going on to trigger it.

You ate one and didn't get sick.

 

[TheSeedObsesser]

Gojis are actually a superfood, far from poisonous. Although they are in the nightshade family so your friend could've just had a reaction to them.

From what I know the nightshade family is pretty large with many members of the family grown as ornamentals (and edibles), so it might be possible that you have another member of the nightshade family or a completely different plant that just looks like a goji.

Is your friend still sick or did she get better? Is she got better shortly after the scenario then there probably isn't anything to worry about. If it was that bad for her, it sounds like she got it out of her system already.

 

[Nyboy]

I ate one and was fine, but it takes a lot to get me sick. Red friends like coming to my house for a dinner party I don't cook so it is always catered. A friend had a sign made that hangs in dinningroom " it may not be Versailles but the wine is just as good"

 

[Nyboy]

She felt much better after throwing up.

 

[Jared77]

Could also have been a sensitivity she had to that specific berry. Or it may have been something on the berry that she ate caused the reaction. A spray or some other chemical that made her sick.

It's really tough to say.

Did you both eat from the same plant?