To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] dwarf almonds
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 02:59:08 -0400 (EDT)
Lon, are you sure that cooking destroys the cyanide compound?
Doug Woodard
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Lon Rombough wrote:
> Sounds like Prunus tenella. Tom Plocher in Hugo, MN said he had some
> bushes of that species that produced 300 nuts per bush after -40 F.
> The species is sold as an ornamental by several nurseries. They are
> bitter, so the nuts have to be cooked to be safely edible.
> -Lon Rombough