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  • From: "Teghtmeyer, Suzanne R" <srt175f@smsu.edu>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Elderberries Question
  • Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 14:13:37 -0500

Hi all,

Last fall I created a website of all of the elderberry resources (book, extension publications, articles, and websites) I could find pertaining to elderberry culture (not so much on the medicinal qualities, just growing and pest control).

 

With this thread, I looked through the links and couldn’t find many images of the varieties mentioned, but hopefully the culture and pest control information will be of assistance to some of you.

 

Website:

http://library.smsu.edu/paulevans/Fruit/elderberry.shtml

 

----Suzi Teghtmeyer

Paul Evans Library of Fruit Science

Missouri State Fruit Experiment Station and Mid-America Viticulture and Enology Center,

Southwest Missouri State University, Mountain Grove Campus

Evans Library Homepage: http://library.smsu.edu/paulevans/

AgNIC Viticulture site: http://library.smsu.edu/paulevans/viticulture1.shtml

Email: srt175f@smsu.edu

Member: CBHL, AgNIC, USAIN, IAALD, ALA, STC

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Brungardt, Sam
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 11:15 AM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Elderberries Question

 

I don't know whether the elderberries you've received from the Mo. Dept.

of Conservation are seedlings or plants grown from root cuttings.  My

guess is that they're seedlings because I'd think the department would

want to maximize genetic diversity.  If they're seedlings, you only need

to plant two plants near each other.

 

Had they been grown from root cuttings (the way named cultivars are), it

would probably be prudent to plant in groups of three to five plants to

increase the chance of having plants of at least two genetic

compositions together to cross pollinate. -- Sam Brungardt, St. Paul,

Minn. 

 

-----Original Message-----

From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org

[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of David W Hausmann

Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 9:17 AM

To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Elderberries Question

 

 

'Ello,

        I live in Missouri and the state Department of Conservation

sells trees and bushes once a year and I have been buying many over the

last 4 years.  They sell bundles of 25 trees or bushes for $25.  This is

the first year that they have had elderberries on the list and I have a

bundle coming in May, along with about 300 other trees.  I ordered

blackberries from them last year and they are growing like crazy.  You

mention that elderberries are not self fertile.  What do I need to do to

have them produce berries?  Also, when I get them in the ground and get

some growth from the elderberries I can attach a pic or 2 if that would

help at all.

        Have a Good One!  Love, Peace and Perception

 

Wizard

Saint Louis, Missouri

 

On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 08:15:26 -0500 "Brungardt, Sam"

<Sam.Brungardt@state.mn.us> writes:

> Doc, it's probably one of the cultivars that are in the trade, such as

> Adams, Johns, Kent, Scotia, Nova, or York (most, if not all of

> these

> were developed in Nova Scotia and New York State).  Actually, there

> are

> probably two cultivars growing there, because elderberries are not

> self

> fertile.  There's a elderberry cultivar trial underway in Missouri,

> and

> perhaps cultivars that do well in that more southerly climate there

> might also do well in South Carolina.  For more info, see

> http://aes.missouri.edu/swcenter/fieldday/page48.stm. -- Sam

> Brungardt,

> St. Paul, Minn.

>

> -----Original Message-----

> From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org

> [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Doc Lisenby

> Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 7:49 AM

> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org

> Subject: [NAFEX] Elderberries Question

>

>

> I drive past a house periodically where there is a  tree about six

> feet tall

> which bears a very heavy crop of what appears to be elderberries

> every

> year.

> The owner is never home for me to ask him or her what variety it is

> or

> whether it actually an elderberry.  It is fenced in and I can't get

> closer

> than about ten feet to it.

> I remember seeing wild elderberries in the Pine Barrens of New

> Jersey

> similarly bearing such crops but they were annual bushes if I

> remember

> correctly.  I have tried several varieties here in South Carolina

> without

> getting near the amount of berries this specimen bears.  Anyone have

> any

>

> ideas as to what variety this could be?  Or if it is possible that a

> similar

> species could be mistaken for elderberry?  The leaves look just like

>

> elderberry leaves and the berries are the same color and size. Doc

> Lisenby Zone 7/8




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