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[Matt Demmon <mdemmon@gmail.com>]

This is fun! in southeast michigan:

Crab apple
American plum (and a couple other plums)
Chokecherry
Wild strawberry
Black and Red Raspberries
Blackberry
Riverbank Grape
Blueberry
Paw paw
Gooseberry
American black currant
Serviceberry
Hawthorn
Hazelnut
Black Walnut
Butternut
Beechnut
Hickories
Acorns
and surprisingly enough, prickly pear!

I'm growing most of these already, just because they're easy. I'm sure I'm
forgetting something, but it's a pretty decent list anyways.

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Spidra Webster <spidra@gmail.com> wrote:

> The other day I was thinking about all the agricultural problems that come
> about from imports. When I lived in Berkeley I was in a light brown apple
> moth quarantine zone and now in South Pasadena I'm in an asian citrus
> psyllid quarantine zone. It's the moving of plant materials that brings
> this
> about. So my mind got to thinking about what fruits I'd have in my area if
> I
> were left to purely native plants, not any of the European stone fruit,
> etc.
> that I so love. It's an interesting exercise. I guess you could extend the
> range to 25 - 50 mi of you.  What fruits/nuts would you have if you were
> limited to this?
>
> I can think of CA native fruits but Southern CA seems poorer in them than
> Northern CA was.
>
> Various oak acorns, of course.
> Possibly beach strawberry (Fragaria chiloensis).
> Prickly Pear (Opuntia)
> Hollyleaf Cherry (Prunus ilicifolia)
>
>
> What fruit would you be limited to if you could only grow what was native
> to
> your area? (This is an exercise for fun, not for advocating that people do
> that.)
>
>
> Megan Lynch
> http://www.meganlynch.net
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