[NAFEX] Bearberry (Cascara sagrada)
tanis cuff
tanistanis at hotmail.com
Tue Apr 1 22:06:40 EST 2003
Lon,
this sounds just like a couple species of exotic buckthorns taking over s.WI
(and the rest of the midwest?) I don't have the latin names in front of me;
I always get the common & latin names of the 2 mis-matched.
Seed of the one is strongly purgative to birds, also to people. Pretty much
unpalatable for people, but the birds seem to love them.
There's also a native species of buckthorn, a marsh shrub.
tc
>From: "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom at hevanet.com>
>Reply-To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex at lists.ibiblio.org>
>To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex at lists.ibiblio.org>
>Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Bearberry (Cascara sagrada)
>Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 18:52:29 -0800
>
>Rhamnus purshiana is a weed here in Oregon. It is a vigorous stump
>sprouter. At one time, herbal collectors would strip the bark in the
>spring, which was dried and powdered as the laxative. The stripped trees
>regrew in just a couple of years, though the best collectors usually came
>through and cut off all but one or two sprouts to allow the remaining one
>to
>get bigger, for a larger, more easily stripped sheet of bark. The tree has
>black berries that the birds eat and deposit seeds anywhere they roost.
>Seedlings are in every fence row here, second only to hawthorn in prolific
>nature.
>-Lon Rombough
>
>From: "Dr. Ethan Natelson" <natelson at pipeline.com>
>Reply-To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex at lists.ibiblio.org>
>Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 20:48:31 -0500
>To: nafex at lists.ibiblio.org
>Subject: [NAFEX] Bearberry (Cascara sagrada)
>
>
>Dear Group,
>
> I was looking through "Pomona in Review, The First Year", and came
>across an article by one of the founders of NAFEX, Milo Gibson. He
>comments
>concerning a grafting technique, "The only luck the writer has had putting
>variety jujube on seedling jujube or on Cascara sagrada, a cousin of the
>jujube, has been with this graft". According to a reference source I have,
>Cascara sagrada (also called bearberry, which is a name also applied to
>certain Haws) is a type of Buckthorn (Rhamnus purshiana syn. Frangula
>purshiana). Does anyone know if, indeed, jujube is compatible with it as a
>rootstock and, if so, any nursery that carries this plant? The laxative
>cascara, apparently comes from its seeds.
>
>Ethan Natelson
>Houston, Texas
>
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