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  • From: "Lucky Pittman" <lpittman@murraystate.edu>
  • To: "'nafex mailing list at ibiblio'" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] Mayhaw emerges from US swamps as cultivated fruit delicacy (Rueters)
  • Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 14:45:08 -0500

I gathered a gallon of fruit this weekend, from beneath the 4 little mayhaws
that I grafted onto native C.crus-galli understock several years ago; more
to ripen over the next week or so.
Some years, cedar-hawthorn rust takes a lot of the fruit, but this year, CHR
damage is minimal.
Originally started out with several named cultivars - Texas Star, Big Red,
Duck Lake, Turkey Haw, Royalty - but I long ago lost the IDs - but they
still make tasty, pretty jelly.

Apple serviceberries(A.x grandiflora) are in full harvest mode right now,
A.alnifolia not far behind. Began picking the first mulberries of the
season over the weekend.

Lucky Pittman
Hopkinsville, KY






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