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  • From: Steven Covacci <filtertitle@aol.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Hovenia dulcis (Japanese raisin tree) - anyone have a good tasting specimen?
  • Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:41:25 -0400 (EDT)




Group:

I've tasted the fleshy rachis of an apparently self-fertile Japanese raisin
tree (Hovenia dulcis); it seems to be the only raisin tree around and
produces many seedlings. The problem with this specimen (from which I have
my seedling) is that the rachis are highly astringent. Anyone have a great
tasting specimen - one which looses its astringency? Or maybe I just needed
to let it dry out - perhaps I should graft the mother tree to my seedling if
there's nothing wrong with the astringency issue after all, since it is a
self-fertile female.

Also, I planted a flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) just 10' away. Do you
think that I can get the raisin tree to tower over the dogwood as an
over-story; if I did, that would require me to force the raisin tree to a
height of around 50', due to light-competition. Most cultivated raisin trees
only get to around 35' high. I think that the dogwood would be over-come by
the raisin tree. Any experience with the growth tendencies of raisin tree
re: competition and height?

Thanks,
Steve; NJ



  • [NAFEX] Hovenia dulcis (Japanese raisin tree) - anyone have a good tasting specimen?, Steven Covacci, 10/18/2011

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