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  • From: "Richard Kruse" <richkrus@gvtel.com>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] need help with cherry ID
  • Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 18:32:43 -0500

If you had described the fruit as having virtually no stem, and numerous
along the branch of the plant, I might have said Nanking. My wife and I
pitted enough of these to make a pie a few years before Bali (Evans). ( I
planted the pits of course)

Dick Kruse, Zone 3, MN
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Lee" <markl@nytec.com>
To: "'North American Fruit Explorers'" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 2:56 PM
Subject: [NAFEX] need help with cherry ID


> I was recently in Hailey, Idaho near Sun Valley. While playing in a
> city park with my kids, I found some 4 foot tall bushes that had leaves
> that looked similar to beech. The branches were loaded with small
> cherries, about 1/2 inch diameter. Unlike chokecherries that are very
> round and glossy, these mystery cherries were like sweet cherries in
> miniature without any sheen. The color was hot orangy-red, like
> Montmorency tart cherries. Inside were tiny appropriately scaled cherry
> pits. The flavor was neither bitter nor sour, just slightly fruity and
> maybe a little sweet. It was like someone took my pie cheery tree from
> back home, shrunk it down to a bush, took away the dominant sour flavor,
> and replaced the normal cherry leaves with beech leaves. I wish I had
> photos, but the handful of fruit I gabbed has now turned to a fermented
> mush. Any ideas what this mystery fruit is?
> -Mark Lee, Seattle
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