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I love how curt the first few forrays were! and the altitude signature

On 2/3/06, K Q <kumquat@operamail.com> wrote:
> We have heard of them described as sweet snot!
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> Kenneth Quattelbaum in Salem, Oregon
> Green Hills East Vineyard in the making
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 15:49:16 -0500
> From: Bob Hartley
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Akebia
> To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
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> I have two Akebia species, quinata and trifoliata.  The nursery I got them 
> from said they will cross pollinate.  Both have bloomed but only the 
> quinata has fruited   The fruit (picture attached) is a large pod which 
> opens when ripe to expose the edible part.  The latter is a stiff,
> clear, colorless gel, maybe 2 by 10 cm. with roughly a hundred embedded 
> seeds., which are round, hard, smooth and about two millimeters in 
> diameter.  The gel is sticky, very sweet, but with very little flavor.
> The vine is four or five years old and had eight or ten fruits last summer.
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> Bob Hartley,  Adams County, PA z6
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