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  • From: "Doc Lisenby" <longdistshtr@shtc.net>
  • To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Winter Hardy Tropicals
  • Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:12:38 -0500

The trifoliata I have bears many fruit but the only thing I have found the fruit to be good for is to use as a sachet in drawers (the chest of drawers type). The pulp is cathartic in some people as I found accidentally and lost a friendship. I like the flavor but scummy consistency (pectin?) discourages most folks from eating much of it; plus they are very seedy.
I saw a use which I hadn't thought of before in China where they use the bushes as thorny barriers to discourage people from trampling their gardens. I wouldn't say that trifolate orange would be harmed by Zone 5 temperatures. In China where I saw many of them gets very cold but I don't know exactly how cold.
Doc
Zone 7/8




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