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- From: John S <swim_at_svc@yahoo.com>
- To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 19:09:52 -0700 (PDT)
Hector knows more about autumn olive than I will likely learn, but I want to add my observations to his. Here in Western PA, I've been visiting and following 4 "wild" autumn olive trees for at least 5 years and probably close to 10 years at this time. The trees are apparently full grown. One tree, usually the producer of the most fruit, is under assault from wild grapes and virginia creeper and clearly looks like it is going into decline. It produced very little fruit this year. Another tree which has never produced fruit in previous years produced a modest crop this year. All of these plants are growing on a steep hillside creek edge and are only marginally accessible to me. There are a couple of seedlings in the area, struggling to compete with weeds and vines, but so far are surviving, but have not taken over by any measure. So far, I have seen no evidence of invasiveness. Considering the huge amount of seed produced, I would expect to see more seedlings than what I do. Here is zone 5+, the fruits do not appear to linger during the winter. Rather they tend to drop quickly after we start to get hard frosts and birds do not pay a lot of interest to it that I have observed. Considering the productivity of the trees, the edibility of leaves, shoots and fruits, beauty, etc I think this one deserves more attention than what it is getting, and am willing to risk its invasiveness. Around here, the nurseries actually sell Tartarian Honeysuckle, a seriously invasive, worthless plant that I see spreading everywhere. Autumn Olive is valuable, much more so than many other more invasive plants routinely sold in the area. There appears to be no problems controlling it in the area that I can see, and I had to search a long time to find the ones I know about. --- On Wed, 9/9/09, Hector Black <hblack1925@fastmail.fm> wrote:
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[NAFEX] autumn olive,
M Stanton, 09/08/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive,
Jay Cutts, 09/08/2009
- Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive, M Stanton, 09/09/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive,
Hector Black, 09/09/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive,
John S, 09/09/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive,
S & E Hills, 09/10/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive,
mIEKAL aND, 09/10/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive,
Lon J. Rombough, 09/10/2009
- Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive, Jolyn, 09/10/2009
- Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive, John S, 09/10/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive,
Lon J. Rombough, 09/10/2009
- Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive, John S, 09/10/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive,
mIEKAL aND, 09/10/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive,
S & E Hills, 09/10/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive,
Kieran &/or Donna, 09/10/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive Now "Invasive plants",
John S, 09/11/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive Now "Invasive plants",
Kieran &/or Donna, 09/11/2009
- Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive Now "Invasive plants", Hilborn . E, 09/11/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive Now "Invasive plants",
Kieran &/or Donna, 09/11/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive Now "Invasive plants",
John S, 09/11/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive,
John S, 09/09/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive,
Jay Cutts, 09/08/2009
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