# Are any natural sweet foods poisonous? Fruits, berries etc?

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Good defensive hedge plant: [Carissa - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carissa)

My Grandmother had a few of them and we would anxiously await the “ripening” when we could sample this lovely fruit safely.

Saw it for the first time in years at a plant stall in Andalucia recently.

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