Some olives can be eaten fresh after sun-drying and the taste is sweet, but most olive cultivars are bitter and must be treated by various chemical solutions before developing into edible olives. If the olives are thinned on the limbs
the photo above is of edible berries found in the forests of guyana. i took the photo on a field trip in 2006 where we were looking at restoring degraded forests for improving poor peoples access to resources as well as improving
These are some of the edible berries which grow in Robin's Wood. There are others but they are not as prolific as these. The most prolific is the salal berry which is usually an untidy shrub but can turn into a vine in a dark forest as
