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  • From: lostman_amiga@yahoo.com
  • To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
  • Subject: [nafex] Re: Akebia anyone?
  • Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 19:49:37 -0000

--- In nafex@y..., "Kieran or Donna" <redherring@t...> wrote:

Wow! Thanx for the tip! It sounds like youve stayed in Atlanta for
some time. I would love to pick your brain on info of minor fruits in
Asian shops (But thats a different story).

Please tell me more about this native Schisandra does it have common
name? Does it have the same uses?

Whats this Lycium? Your holding out on us. :)
Sounds like you need to write and article for the next Pomona :)

> Lostman,
> Sorry, Magnolia vine is unlikely to appreciate Atlanta's heat.
There IS
> a native schisandra, sold by Woodlanders if they still carry it,
native to
> SC. (Just don't try any of their hardy citrus unless they have
started
> grafting the trees.)) I myself keep trying to grow Lycium, which is
> practically a weed and ought to be ridiculously easy to grow, but
the
> seedlings seem to get damping off. If you'll go to one of the
oriental
> groceries on Beuford Hwy and buy dried persimmons, "red dates"
(jujube), and
> "Fructus lycii" (it's in the medicinal herbs section), you can taste
some of
> these minor fruits in advance. I like them all. Lycium is
considered a
> tonic food, very nourishing. Ditto for jujubes, which taste like
small mild
> apples when ripe. Dried Schisandra ought to be there too somewhere
in the
> medicinal section, I haven't tried it, but the name is something
like "Five
> flavors fruit" so it has a complex flavor, including bitterness.
Richters
> schisandra seeds won't germinate for me, but the seeds in dried
lycium
> berries germinate just fine. Have fun! Donna


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