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["Idell Weydemeyer" <iwgarden@earthlink.net>]

Oh my-- I think serviceberries have a good flavor--not as strong as fresh
blueberry or Rocky Mountain huckleberry but are tasty and juicy. They do
vary in flavor and texture and some are great and others are good.(referring
to berries in northern Montana and Northern California and the hybrid ones
are great too.) 

Idell Weydemeyer

-----Original Message-----
From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of R F Hollaus
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 10:09 AM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Fleshy Hawthorne

According to Arthur Lee Jacobson "native trees to Seattle" there are 
two native species of Black hawthornes.  One hot summer day in 
Wilsonville OR I pulled off the road in a traffic jam and started 
eating the ecotype one that has the longer spines and slightly 
fleshier fruit.  There was not much to taste (very weak) but at 
least you can see from my image they are were juicy.  I would 
compare them to the fruit of seviceberry but the fruit a little 
smaller.
Longspine Black Hawthorne:
http://home.comcast.net/~hollaus/Greens/2009/Hawthorne/BlackHaws.htm

The other closely related species are "shortspine" black hawthornes
of which I have been able to find in Camas WA, but none of any of
which compare in production or flesh quantity to the previously
mentioned "longspines".