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  • From: "Hector Black" <hblack1925@fastmail.fm>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive Now "Invasive plants"
  • Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:24:43 -0500

Hi Betsey - I forgot what a nuisance the thorny ones are. Ours are all thornless. Must have been bred out or else they came from clones without thorns. Hector

----- Original Message ----- From: <Hilborn.E@epamail.epa.gov>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 11:54 AM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive Now "Invasive plants"


Autumn olive is a terrible pest here in central NC. The birds spread the
seeds.
If left unchecked, it creates dense thickets of thorny brush as a
monoculture understory. It seems to thrive in both shade and sun here.

My experienced neighbor warned me about it. He told me that he has had
tractor tires punctured by the thorns of mature plants.

I have been fighting it as a nuisance along with Microstegium vimineum,
privet, honeysuckle, multiflora rose and now Mahonia of all things.

I am very careful as to what I plant these days....

Betsy Hilborn
7a NC

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