para_paramoney on Nostr: Eating the berries of Leycesteria formosa, also known as, pheasant berry, they taste ...

Eating the berries of Leycesteria formosa, also known as, pheasant berry, they taste like burned figs or salty caramel when ripe. When not fully ripe it tastes horribly bitter. #caprifoliaceae

Other common names include Himalayan honeysuckle, pheasant-eye, Elisha's tears, flowering nutmeg, spiderwort, Cape fuchsia, whistle stick, Himalaya nutmeg, granny's curls, partridge berry, chocolate berry, shrimp plant/flower and treacle tree/berry. Akso recorded as Symphoricarpos rivularis Suksdorf