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

Sometime back, I was following a discussion thread over at the GardenWeb 
Forums on 'german berries' ;  the post's originator described what, to me, 
sounded like a ground cherry/tomatillo type fruit, but eventually somebody 
came up with the following info & links:

> near as we can figure out, german berries are of the hibiscus 
> family.  check out the following sites:
>
> > http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/BODY_MV126
> >
> > http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/roselle.html
> >
> > http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/duke_energy/Hibiscus_sabdariffa.html
> >
> > http://www.echonet.org/tropicalag/plantinfo/Hibiscussabdariffa.pdf
> >
>
> if you want some, the seeds of that hibiscus may be ordered
>  http://echonet.org/shopsite_sc/store/html/SeedtoSeed.html
>
> i'll know more about this in the fall....assuming we actually get some to 
> grow.

Lucky