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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

If the ordinary form will do, I have it.  Contact me offlist for photos.
Incidentally, the "thorns" are short sharp ended twigs, much like the "thorns" on juvenile pears.  They are much less noticeable on the mature wood.
-Lon Rombough
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On Oct 29, 2007, at 10:39 AM, MARIE ASHTON wrote:

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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