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  • From: Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] sugarberry
  • Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 11:56:02 -0600

At 08:30 AM 11/14/2002 -0800, you wrote:
Does anyone have experience using Celtis occidentalis, sugarberry, as an
edible?

Mark,
I'd learned C.occidentalis as hackberry, and C.laevigata as sugarberry. Don't know if there's a significant difference in fruit/seed size or quality/taste, but I've also sampled hackberry fruits, and didn't find much about it to recommend it as an edible either.
But, I'm not a bird.

I will have to say that while I've seen plenty of C.occidentalis, I've never knowingly encountered C.laevigata.


Lucky Pittman
USDA Zone 6
Hopkinsville, KY





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