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[tanis cuff <tanistanis@hotmail.com>]

Honeysuckle should have been on the top of those lists with buckthorns & 
p.loostrife.  

Honeysuckles grown from seeds (for example, spread by birds) display 
variability.  That's why selections of different flower colors or mature 
shape can be found & vegetatively propagated & spread by commerce.


> From: kathmath
> To: nafex
> Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:43:35 -0500
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] birds & cherries, & juneberries
>
> Amelanchiers are a different story. I think birds prefer them to almost
> anything else. I had noticed that I've had to weed out some volunteer
> honeysuckle, but I haven't seen it on any list of invasive exotic species.
> I have noticed a lot of honeysuckle out in the woods on hikes, etc. when I'm
> out of town. I have no idea if it's tartarica or something else. The
> flower is much paler than the varieties sold in nurseries and its form
> appears to be more rounded. I would never have something like buckthorn or
> purple loostrife in my garden, but I guess I'll be on the lookout for more
> information before I rip out my 'Arnold Red'
> Kathryn
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nafex-bounces On Behalf Of tanis cuff
> Sent: 07/18/2008 10:19 AM
> To: North American Fruit Explorers
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] birds & cherries, & juneberries
>
> Lonicera t. has spread (via seeds) everywhere and there seems to be no
> stopping it without continual work, so I don't know how much I want to worry
> about this. But it is an invasive exotic species which wrecks the native
> plant communities in which it thrives.
>
> As I watched catbirds wrestle 1/2 ripe, bright red berries off my
> Amelanchiers' first really good crop, and then the robins came and fought
> over the remaining berries which began to turn purlpe, I looked around for
> other ripening fruit-- for birds OR people!
>
> Ripe about the same time were red currants, mulberries (yes, M.alba is
> exotic & somewhat invasive, but not as bad as honeysuckle), red elderberry--
> Sambucus pubescens, black raspberries, and I'll probably think of a couple
> more after hitting send.
>
> tc, sWI, ecologically Kathryn's neighbor
>
>

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