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The fruit is readily eaten by birds, which do not perceive astringency as unpleasant. [citation needed] In Eurasia, the bird-cherry ermine moth (Yponomeuta evonymella) uses bird-cherry as its host plant, and the larvae can eat single trees leafless. [citation needed] In North America the tree is often attacked by the black knot fungus ...
It is a broadleaf tree growing to 18 m (60 ft). The fruits, resembling dates, are edible with sweet flesh surrounding 1-2 flat seeds. [3] They are occasionally sold in local markets, eaten fresh, or dried and pounded and then added to pearl millet pap for their sweet flavour. Animals such as monkeys, baboons and birds also eat them. [4]
Many mammal and bird species feed off the berries, [14] including juncos, American robins, cedar waxwings, band-tailed pigeons, varied thrushes, quail, mule deer, raccoons, ring-tailed cats, and bears. As the fruit are produced in great quantity and may persist on the tree into winter, their value as a food source is great.
The fruit attracts birds with no significant litter problem, is persistent on the tree, and is showy. The bark is thin and easily damaged from mechanical impact; branches droop as the tree grows, and will require pruning for vehicular or pedestrian clearance beneath the canopy; routinely grown with, or trainable to be grown with, multiple trunks.
Hawthorn, may-tree: Crataegus monogyna: Native to Europe, northwest Africa and western Asia; naturalized elsewhere: Leaves (when young, in April), edible raw as a salad vegetable . Berries (in autumn), edible raw, or made into jellies, jams and syrups, or used as a flavoring [6] Beech: Fagus sylvatica
The leaves are alternate, elliptical, entire, and 10–20 cm (3.9–7.9 in) long. The flowers are white, and are produced at the beginning of the rainy season. The fruit is a yellow berry, 3–5 cm (1.2–2.0 in) in diameter, which is edible; it contains one (occasionally two) seed(s). Its latex is used industrially for products such as chicle.
The fruit is a red berry, 7–20 mm (1 ⁄ 4 – 13 ⁄ 16 in) diameter, spherical in shape with a rough surface. [11] It matures in about 12 months, in autumn, at the same time as the next flowering. It is edible; the fruit is sweet when reddish. Seeds are small, brown and angular [11] and are often dispersed by frugivorous birds. [12]
The satinleaf was one of the many species described by Linnaeus, appearing for the first time in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae in 1759.. A combined DNA and morphological study of the subfamily Chrysophylloideae found the two main genera, Chrysophyllum and Pouteria, to be highly polyphyletic, and that C. oliviforme is in a clade with other members of the genus.