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[Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>]

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