Sparkleberry Crunch

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 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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Hawthorn Berry Tea

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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.