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  • From: "Jim Fruth" <jimfruth@charter.net>
  • To: "NAFEX" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Fruits with strange(?) flowers
  • Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:16:03 -0500

The trouble with growing passion fruit, P incarnata, and other fruits not native to this area is the strangeness of the flowers. The pollinators here don't recognize them as sources of nectar and/or pollen. Consequently, they don't get pollinated unless I do it by hand or the wind does it.

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Farm
Pequot Lakes, MN 56472
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