Trees; Spindle berries

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Trees; Spindle berries

There are some very striking shocking pink berries in Main Field, and are plenty in BWT hedges.  Don't eat them, they are poisonous!

I think they are Euonymus europaeus (the common spindle) but I don't know why the specimen in our garden has far fewer berries than this one!  

Spindles are very popular with aphids, so perhaps better in the wild than in a garden. I guess the long straight branches of close-grained wood were used to make the many spindles needed in the days when most women span their own wool, hemp or linen, hence the name.