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i live near a big forest and im new to foraging and i dont know whats edible or not , is it true that all apple varieties are edible ? and i found one variety of apple thats rose blush in the inside , tasted ok when i had a nibble , does anyone know what variety it may be?
also i found 2 plum trees but they may be greengage there small plum shaped things yellow in colour bit bigger than a cherry and another i found small plum/greengage tree with dark purple fruits , also about elderberries how do i 100% know whether there edible, i want to be able to properly identify them , and i dont want to end up killing myself eating poisonous berries!
will put photos tomorrow

hello cctv(?!?) welcome in

where abouts are you ? I've just finished preserving the plums from my (wild) cherry plum tree they're yellow when ripe and fall shortly afterwards.
elderberries are edible - just so long as you know they are elderberries

sounds like you need a good plant book

I saw some wild plums/damsons (i think) while walking home from work a different way yesterday. Is there anything else that looks like plums? or can I be pretty sure that's what they are?

Sorry if that's a stupid question, I'm very new to forraging!

Apples, plums and certainly elderberries are all pretty easy. A couple of minutes' use of Google images will probably instil a degree of confidence in identification.

Having said that, not all apples are useful in the same way as Granny Smiths - crab apples will turn your face inside out (but are great to add to ciders and wines). Similarly, a sloe is a plum - but don't bite into one, small though it is, with the anticipation of a gorgeous mouthful of plummy sweetness. They're like crab apples, only worse.

Mike

thanks for the warning!
If they do turn out to be sloes I might attempt some sloe gin or something rather than eating fresh or baking

Sloes shouldn't be too hard to identify - essentially, they're small, and if you go to pick one and feel like you've been stabbed in the arm, that's a sloe tree. They're also called blackthorn, at least in Ireland, and have great spiky thorns up to about 3cm long, which you could nearly use as panel pins.

They're used a lot, alongside hawthorn, for hedges here - if you see them in springtime, they're very easy to pick out, because they flower before they leaf, leaving masses of white flowers on nearly bare black branches.

If your apples with the rose blush are what I think they are - I'm very jealous! My mum had a tree like that, the apples were delicious, but she had to have it cut down as it was poorly

The yellow " plums" are probably mirabelles ... Or in our house "miracles"
They make fab jam :)