To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Roses for hips?
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 08:27:44 -0700 (PDT)
Try some taste-tests on flowering crabs this fall. The true crabs-- clusters
of
berries. Last year, after exploring autumn-olives, I started tasting little
crabapples. (I figured they couldn't be any worse than some of the
autumn-olives!)
I was surprised how many of them were "OK/ usable", and how much some of them
reminded me of rosehips, but easier to work with.
--- Spidra Webster <spidra@speakeasy.net> wrote:
>
> On Jun 5, 2006, at 6:44 AM, Lon J. Rombough wrote:
>
> > The species grown for hips commercially in Sweden and other parts of
> > Europe is Rosa dumalis, a relative of R. canina. I have some and the
> > flavor and character of them is (to my taste) better than R. rugosa.
> > They are firmer than rugosa, which makes it easier to scoop the seeds
> > out, and a lot more productive....
>
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