Fireberry Hawthorne  (rosacea)

Fruit.

Fruit - raw or cooked. A fair size fruit, to 15mm in diameter, with a reasonable sweet mealy taste, though when not fully ripe there is a distinct bitterness[K]. It makes an acceptable dessert fruit[K]. The fruit can be used in making pies, preserves, etc, and can also be dried for later use. There are up to five fairly large seeds in the centre of the fruit, these often stick together and so the effect is of eating a cherry-like fruit with a single seed[K].



A decoction of the dried berries has been used as a mild laxative