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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

> Lon:
> 
> Is the Hansen bush cherry the same as what is called Korean bush cherry?
> 
> My Korean seems to be much better behaved here, full of fruit, I find them a
> bit more tart than
> the Nanking, & they dont seem to be suffering from die off the way that
> Nanking does.  One great
> asset to bush cherries is that the robins strip every last cherry off my pie
> cherry trees & for
> some reason they tend to leave the bush cherries alone, of at least they 
> dont
> grab them til
> there very ripe which gives me plenty of time to get them first.  Robins
> around here seem to
> like pie cherries when they are yellow.
> 
> mIEKAL
Korean bush cherry is most likely Prunus tomentosa or possibly P.
jacquemontii.  Professor Meader bred Jan, Joy, and Joel using P.
jacquemontii as one parent.  It ripens in the fall and has fruit like a pie
cherry.  Hansen's material was mostly from P. besseyi.