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  • From: "Alan Haigh" <alandhaigh@gmail.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [NAFEX] autumn olive not fragrant?
  • Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 13:14:44 -0400

While I realize that plants perform differently depending on their environment, if you have an autumn olive without a very heavy, and to most, very pleasant fragrance you don't have an autumn olive plant or you don't have a nose that functions normally or one of us lives in a separate universe.  I would bet it's the first.   
 
I used to grow a couple Hidden Springs cultivars, and while the fruit was much larger on both than the native seedlings around here, I found it useless for juice or preserves because of the high level of alum.  I keep a few plants on the forest edge to serve my various pollinators who just love the extremely fragrant flowers.  It's a very enjoyable fragrance to me as well. 
 


  • [NAFEX] autumn olive not fragrant?, Alan Haigh, 09/06/2008

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