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bourdaine

Language: French

Description: Sloe berry. The sloe berry is a wild fruit like a small, tart plum with purple skin and yellow flesh which grows on the blackthorn. It is famously used to make sloe gin.


bourdaine
Sloe berries, the last of the season, growing near my father's house in the Cotswolds

Pronounced: boor-DEHN
Latin: Prunus spinosa
Ethnicity: French
Most frequent country: France
Also known as: prunelle

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