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  • From: "MARIE ASHTON" <bwoodtx@verizon.net>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Sloe Cultivars?
  • Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:39:44 -0500

The USDA Germplasm Repository at Davis, California has the Prunus spinosa subspecies Purpurea in its collection. You might be able to get scionwood from them and graft you own tree. It's accession number is DPRU 0848 Prunus spinosa purpurea. The purple leaves might make it more attractive and the smaller thorns of this subspecies might be even better. I do not know if you can get the scionwood from them but you can always try, there seem to be some budget problems with the USDA Repositories; they keep loosing personnel and programs.

Regards,
Richard Ashton
Oak Creek Orchard
www.oakcreekorchard.com
bwoodtx@verizon.net

----- Original Message ----- From: "Spidra Webster" <spidra@speakeasy.net>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 12:17 PM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Sloe Cultivars?


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
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