To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] potted fruit plant
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 09:25:11 -0600
A second on figs, & if you're gonna keep it indoors most of the year I
would go for something a little more exotic than the brown turkey,
hardy chicago genre of figs, maybe try a jelly fig, a conadria or a LSU
Gold (which I don't have in my own collection but sounds quite
interesting.)
Also another fruit that hasn't been mentioned which makes a really easy
to maintain, compact house plant is the surinam cherry (eugenia
uniflora) which produces quite edible ribbed fruits very high in
vitamin C. I grew mine from seed & they fruited within 3 years.
Here's a few pics of them in action.