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[tanis grif <tanisgrif@yahoo.com>]

Try some taste-tests on flowering crabs this fall.  The true crabs-- clusters 
of
berries.  Last year, after exploring autumn-olives, I started tasting little
crabapples.  (I figured they couldn't be any worse than some of the 
autumn-olives!) 
I was surprised how many of them were "OK/ usable", and how much some of them
reminded me of rosehips, but easier to work with.

 

--- Spidra Webster <spidra@speakeasy.net> wrote:
> 
> On Jun 5, 2006, at 6:44 AM, Lon J. Rombough wrote:
> 
> > The species grown for hips commercially in Sweden and other parts of 
> > Europe is Rosa dumalis, a relative of R. canina.  I have some and the 
> > flavor and character of them is (to my taste) better than R. rugosa.   
> > They are firmer than rugosa, which makes it easier to scoop the seeds 
> > out, and a lot more productive....
>

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