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  • From: nbeaureg@student.umass.edu
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Autumn olives
  • Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:28:12 -0400


i second the evaluation as invasive.
with a caveat.

if the fruit are harvested, it realy cuts down on how plants spread by seed.

also, i live in mass, and it seems to me the image of the overbearing
state government is hugely exagerated.

ncb

Quoting Donna &/or Kieran <holycow@cookeville.com>:

> I'd heard that autumn olives were invasive, and I have certainly seen
> seedlings from ours. However, it wasn't till we went over the Smokies to
> Virginia that we saw areas that were practically 100% autumn olive. That's
> when we came home and chopped ours down. Mind you, we have to chop them
> annually, I remember Hector had a heck of a time killing the ones he wanted
> to cull.
> Soils and climates are different. Charlie says that in Massachusetts
> apples are invasive. Not so here, they barely survive, and sure don't
> reproduce much. Pears are a different matter, and with the newer ornamental
> Calleryanas Tennesseans are in for an unpleasant surprise. I may live way
> out in the sticks, but there have been plenty of volunteer rootstocks for me
> to graft my pears onto. Donna



  • Re: [NAFEX] Autumn olives, nbeaureg, 10/05/2006

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