Sparkleberry Crunch

[judifilksign]

 Sparkle ate ten berries from a bush/tree in our yard. After a call to poison control and a trip to the garden center, we determined they were hawthorn berries. They may or may not make her sick to her stomach, will either make her wired or drowsy, and are not poisonous unless she is allergic to them. I am shaky and upset after my trip to the garden center. Sparkle is unrepentant about eating the berries.

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[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

Sparkle declared she had ten yummy mangoes, and displayed a handful of berries.

I put on my best "Snow White" voice, and cooed at her, asking "Did you eat any of the berries, sweetie?"

Sparkle said yes. I cooed "How many did you eat?" and she repeated ten.

I barked at her a bit that the berries might be poisonous, and had her lead me to the berry bush in question. She did so, crying out "I didn't do anything!"

"Of course not, sweetie," I cooed again, and making cow eyes at her, she led me to the bush. I broke off the branch, and looked at the greenish-yellow clusters, and called poison control, who sent me to the garden center.

The poison control called back an hour later, and I updated them, and they looked up in their books about hawthorns, too.

Hawthorn Berry Tea

[bigbumble.livejournal.com]

About a year ago, my sister gave me a variety of herbal teas. One of them was "Hawthorn Berries" from Celebration Herbals.

To quote from the tea box,
"Hawthorn is a member of the Rose family rosaceae. It's a small, compact shrub-tree with white bark, hard wood, and sharp thorns, It produces small berries called "haws" which look like tiny apples or rosehips."

Of course, with sisters, you never know for sure.