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[John S <swim_at_svc@yahoo.com>]

Steven,  The best I've tried is Elegant. Consistently better tasting fruit.  
Yellow is also good but smaller fruit.  Pioneer probably has the best tasting 
ones, but has a consistency issue and needs to be dead ripe before it gets 
good.  Elegant seems to be more delicate than the others mentioned and I have 
lost several trees of it.  Pioneer has never produced a lot of fruit for me, 
just a few.

Go with at least two varieties for pollination and max production.  



--- On Fri, 4/1/11, Steven Covacci <filtertitle@aol.com> wrote:

From: Steven Covacci <filtertitle@aol.com>
Subject: [NAFEX] Looking for recommendation for CORNELIAN CHERRY (Cornus 
mas), and/or scionwood or nursery source.
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Friday, April 1, 2011, 3:09 AM

Group: 


CORNELIAN CHERRY [C. mas] - 


I'm looking for a recommendation for a cultivar (selected for edibility) for 
cornelian cherry dogwood (Cornus mas); and perhaps scionwood or a nursery 
that carries the cultivar.


Some of said 'Flava' (yellow fruit) is good; I read of a supposedly 
outstanding 'Kazlan', but not available in the US to my knowledge; I heard 
'Black Plum' tastes like a plum as per the name lol; I'm thinking about going 
with 'Red Star'.


The cornelian cherries I've tasted in parks have tasted like a cranberry - 
not impressed at all; yet, a friend describes them to me as delicious, so I'm 
looking for a great-flavored cultivar.


If you have scionwood, that would be greatly appreciated, but I'd rather get 
one on it's roots already started from a nursery since I'm in a rush to get 
fruit.


Thanks,
Steve



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