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["Jim Fruth" <jimfruth@charter.net>]

   A simple  scientific definition of a (plant) Genus is that it is 
comprised of a group of plants that can interbreed.  When we compare the 
flowering habit between Chokecherry and plants of the Genus Prunus. it seems 
clear that Chokecherry is not a Prunus.  If Chokecherry would be a Prunus, 
some plant breeder would have crossed it with plums to get a dangling of 
plums that resembles grapes except that the fruit would be huge. 
Clearly(?), Chokecherry is not a Prunus and its name, Padus nana is more 
fitting.

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Fruit Farm
4002 Davis Street
Pequot Lakes, MN  56472
1-218-831-7018 (My Cell)