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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