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[Spidra Webster <spidra@speakeasy.net>]

Thanks so much for all the information, folks!  Yep, I know it's  
thorny, it suckers, the fruit's astringent. I want to try making sloe  
gin from scratch, though.  And I think it would make good preserves.

It was very interesting learning that it was part of the process of  
breeding Prunus domestica.  I had always assumed Prunus domestica  
just came about naturally...

Megan Lynch
Berkeley, CA Zone 9b