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[<jelie@new.rr.com>]

Hi,

>From what I have heard, haskap is the Japanese name for the Ainu people, a 
>caucasian people whose presence in the northern Japanese islands predates 
>that of the Japanese.  I believe that they were one of the first people 
>identified as using the edible honeysuckle.

I grow a few haskap and am anxious to try the Tundra and Borealis varieties.

Jim Elie
Green Bay WI
zone 4/5

---- mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com> wrote: 
> Where does the name Haskap come from & what was behind the decision to
> not use any of the other names like honeyberry, edible lonicera, etc?
> 
> Hopefully these have some flavor & are not insipid tasting like the
> ones I'm growing.
> 
> ~mIEKAL
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