To: "'North American Fruit Explorers'" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Fwd: Question
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 14:02:11 -0700
>From the Plants for a Future website... http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/cgi-bin/pfaf/arr_html?Rhamnus+carolinianus&CA
N=LATIND
"Rhamnus carolinianus - Indian cherry
Edible Uses
Fruit - raw or cooked. The fruit has a thin rather dry flesh[82] with a
sweet and agreeable flavour[2, 11, 105, 229]. The fruit is about 7 -
10mm in diameter and contains 2 - 4 small seeds[229]. Some caution is
advised, see the notes above on toxicity."
No mention of the annual amount of fruit produced.
-Mark Lee, Seattle
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[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Lon Rombough
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Subject: [NAFEX] Fwd: Question
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>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "J. Ryan Stewart" <stewart@iastate.edu>
>>>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 10:37 AM
>>> Subject: Question
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Do you know of anyone who has worked with cultivating fruit of
>>>> native
>>>> or
>>>> introduced buckthorns (Rhamnus or Frangula)? I came across a
>>>> website
>>>> on
>>>> the internet a couple of years ago that said the fruit of Carolina
>>>> buckthorn (Rhamnus caroliniana or Frangula caroliniana) was edible.
>>>> My
>>>> dissertation is focused on Carolina buckthorn, but I've never dared
>>> tasting
>>>> its fruit. Dr. Paul Domoto of Iowa State University suggested I
>>>> contact
>>>> NAFEX because I'm trying to find someone who has determined the
>>>> annual
>>>> fruit load of any species of buckthorn.
>>>>
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>
>>>> Ryan Stewart
>>>> Graduate Research Assistant
>>>> Horticulture Department
>>>> 106 Horticulture
>>>> Iowa State University
>>>> Ames, Iowa 50011-1100
>>>>
>>> http://www.hort.iastate.edu/facultystaff/meetfaculty/graves/
>>> students/ stewart/
>>>>
>>>>
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