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["Naomi Counides" <naomi@oznayim.us>]

What an enchanting thought! Plums, peaches and apricots in a cluster like
grapes.  And then you must crush it with reality.
Naomi

"I am a solipsistic conspiracy theorist.  I am sure I am up to something,
and I will not stop until I find out what."  


http://xkcd.com/842/  Jan 3, 2011

-----Original Message-----
From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Jim Fruth
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 8:21 AM
To: NAFEX
Subject: [NAFEX] Which botanical key is correct?

    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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