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[Matt Demmon <mdemmon@gmail.com>]

I don't know but I want one! It actually sounds close to my goumi in a good
year. I've got a named variety, and they are usually about an inch long and
half an inch wide, and tasty. But the leaves aren't that big. A little
bigger than autumn olive.

-matt
z5 se MI

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Idell Weydemeyer 
<iwgarden@earthlink.net>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Maybe someone can tell me what this fruit is---
>
> It is  like a large goumi-- This fruit is 1.25 inches long (my regular
> goumi
> is 3/8" long), about 3/4+ inch wide, a medium orange color and sweetish
> without the slightly astringent aftertaste of goumis.  it is ripe now, the
> same time as my goumis. The seed is about 3/4 inch long with fluted sides.
> The leaves are about 4 times larger than the regular goumi, soft, and have
> very little brown on the underside..
>
> I grafted this  on one of my two goumis several years ago, forgot it, move
> my one remaining goumi (when the other goumi died) and nearly cut this
> branch off since it was in the path. The person I got it from gave me a
> name
> but the description does not fit at all.
> So what is this good fruit????
>
> Idell
>
>
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