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  • From: "Dr. Lucky Pittman" <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
  • To: "'North American Fruit Explorers'" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Archived Juneberry post
  • Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:37:03 -0600

>From 2000; my current comment regarding rust is that I've seen
cedar(juniper)-serviceberry rust rampant on "Autumn Brilliance" in southern
IN, and find an occasional rust-infested berry on my row-run A.xgrandiflora
plants, but not many. Mayhaws here are heavily damaged by rust infection on
fruits, and to lesser degree, on leaves, stems.
Lucky

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard A. Moyer
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 2:55 PM

Several points:
1) For Donna and Dan who are in Tenn and Fla, respectively:
Lucky is right that 'Jennybelle' is perhaps best adapted to warmer climes.
I have obtained plants from J.S. AKin in LA and Hidden Springs Nursery.
This is a tree form and not a bush, though I presume it would respond to
pruning. Hector with Hidden Springs says 'Regent' may be their best
cultivar. I prefer the latter, my wife the former.

2) RUST: I asked specifically about rust on Juneberries at Southern Fruit
Fellowship meeting last July. No one in the group has seen it in their
plantings in the southeast. Perhaps this is one of the few diseases we
escape. There is a planting of over a hundred AMelanchiers (many cultivars)
at the Mountain Crops Horticultural Station in Fletcher, NC, near Asheville.
Viewed these in fruit several years ago and no trace of rust on fruit or
plants. Rust on Amelanchier, regardless of source, is not an issue for us
in the southeast, Zone 6-9 as best I can determine.
We have significant cedar apple rust pressure. I do not spray for it, have
cedars all around with galls, and have Spigold apple which develops CAR each
year to varying degrees. My amelanchiers 15 feet away have no discernable
sign of rust on fruit or leaves.
When out in Corvallis NCGR several years ago was amazed at the extent of
rust damage on the Amelanchiers there; some of the same cultivars I have
here without rust.
Don't know about multiple strains of CAR, or if it's quince rust, etc. I DO
get significant rust on Mayhaws here, so much so that I am topworking the
tree.

Lon, Have seen dozens of native Amelanchiers at multiple locations in
southern appalachians from 1500 to over 5000'. No rust observed on ripe
fruit on these, but so far the fruit size and flavor of the cultivars we are
growing are superior to native fruit we have tasted, so cultivars are
recommended here. (Native Juneberries at 5000' are ripe in early August.
(Augustberries, anyone?)

It is my impression that Ken Asmus does not have significant rust pressure
at his Oikos Nursery site either. have a call into him to check.

To echo Lon, if Amelanchier cultivars don't work for you, look for natives
for the stuff is all over N. America. But keep in mind that Juneberries
cultivars do perform well for many in certain parts of the country. Try
your site and see! In our experience they may need to be coddled to get
them going, but after that they are great freeze beaters.



-----Original Message-----
From: "Lon J. Rombough"
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 12:30 PM
: Re: [nafex] Re: cooking of fruit seeds and cyanide breakdown

From: "Lon J. Rombough"
This is something I keep harping on. Most of the commercially available
Juneberries are selections from other climates - particularly Canada - and
are not suited to local environments in many places. But Amelanchier is so
widespread that it ought to be possible to select local cultivars almost
everywhere. I have a local selection of A. alnifolia that gets less than 5%
rust when the Canadian selections are totally wiped out (all fruit infected)
with rust. I'm sure there are even better selections to be had. Instead of
buying cultivars, NAFEXers need to go out and FIND local selections - they
grow in fence rows, around larger trees, anyplace the birds drop them.
Propagation could even be by seed, for a while. Then you own't have the
problems you have with the commercial ones.
-Lon Rombough
----------
>From: "Christopher Mauchline"
>Subject: [nafex] Re: cooking of fruit seeds and cyanide breakdown
>Date: Fri, Mar 24, 2000, 7:12 AM
>

>From: "Christopher Mauchline"
>
>Juneberries have been a disappointment for me as well. Beautiful
>spring blossoms and then nothing. The fruit gets fungal fruiting
>bodies and the plants get either cankers or branches get swollen and
>deformed. Have Jennybelle and A. Xgrandiflora. Same symptoms on
>both. I attribute the fruit fungal problem to possibly Cedar apple
>rust, but that's a guess. Does anybody have any other ideas?
>
>Chris Mauchline
>SE PA, zone 6








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