Prunus spinosa - Wikipedia Prunus spinosa, called blackthorn or sloe, is an Old World species of flowering plant in the rose family, Rosaceae It is locally naturalized in parts of the New World The fruits are used to make sloe gin in Britain and patxaran in Basque Country
Blackthorn: Recipes and Benefits of Sloe | Fine Dining Lovers Blackthorn is a deciduous shrub or small tree in the rose family It has dark-coloured bark and stiff, spiny branches, and grows a mass of small, creamy white flowers in the spring, which are replaced by an edible purple-black fruit called a sloe in the autumn
Sloe - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sloe has blackish bark and dense, stiff, spiny branches It is a huge deciduous shrub or small tree that can grow up to 5 meters (16 feet) in height Its oval leaves are 1 2–2 cm (1⁄2–3⁄4 in) wide, 2–4 5 cm (3⁄4–1+3⁄4 in) long, and have a serrated edge
History of Drink: What Exactly is Sloe Gin, Anyway? Sloe gin is many things – a home-grown British favorite, a triumph of ingenuity, and a forgotten cocktail classic that deserves a second look To understand sloe gin, we must first answer the question: “what, exactly, is a sloe”? Sloes are little berries, about the size of a dime, that grow wild in hedgerows all over England
What Is Sloe Gin? - Food Wine Born a regular gin, the booze used to make sloe gin is steeped with sugar and sloe (a rouge berry from the Blackthorn plant) to sweeten the spirit and lower the proof to as low as 15%
SLOE – Hortiforum General Info – Sloe, Sloe Plum, Blackthorn The tiny, wild purple Plums of the sloe tree have long been used across Europe and West Asia Sloes are notoriously sour and astringent, to the point where they are not edible when eaten raw on their own
Blackthorn facts and health benefits Blackthorn or sloe scientifically known as Prunus Spinosa is a low, spreading, thorny bush or small tree of the plum genus of the family Rosaceae (rose family) among other economically important species, such as apple, apricot, blackberry, pear, and plum or prune, having black bark, white flowers, and deep blue fruits, usually rather acrid and