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  • From: "Jim Fruth" <jimfruth@charter.net>
  • To: "NAFEX" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Which botanical key is correct?
  • Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 09:20:32 -0600

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)




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