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  • From: "Richard Moyer" <ramoyer@gmail.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] yellowhorn and honeylocust
  • Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 09:15:26 -0400


Michele wrote:
Has anyone tried eating the fruit (nuts) of Xanthoceras sorbifolium?  How did you prepare them?  What did they taste like?
Second, are there any gleditsia enthusiasts out there?
 
Michele,
Our Yellowhorn bloomed a number of years but never set nuts.  If I remember correctly, Hidden Springs Nursery in central TN had a similar experience.
Gleditsia: Andy Wilson noted that there are two major types of honeylocust selected, one more for seeds (Millwood and Calhoun) and others for the 'honey' in the pods.  The former are more northern; in the SE US I am used to the ones rich in honey.
Hidden Springs Nursery is growing several Gleditsia cultivars from both types above.  If you are willing to ask and pay them adequately, the good folks at Hidden Springs may gather the pods of the types above from their plantings, that you can taste the honey from these pods before buying the plants from them.  If you have goats or sheep, the seeds in the pods are good protein sources and the trees are used thus in New Zealand and S. Africa.
Richard Moyer
East TN
Goumi, mulberries, juneberries, raspberries and cherries ripe.
 


  • Re: [NAFEX] yellowhorn and honeylocust, Richard Moyer, 06/11/2006

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