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I should do some searches first, but I'm tired: I think there's a midwest 
native Rhamnus, a WI marsh shrub.  I don't think it's very common.  If we get 
more floods maybe its habitat will expand.  Anybody growing this for fruit?



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From: lonrom
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:27:40 -0700
To: nafex
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] birds & cherries, & buckthorns

Given the ability of the native R. purshiana to grow and spread here in 
Oregon, it's very easy to understand how a related species could be a weed 
elsewhere.  Birds spread them readily and they are vigorous stump sprouters, 
so cutting them doesn't kill them.  There is still some use of the bark, 
Cascara, famous as a laxative.

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