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Subject: Re: [nafex] Mayhaw emerges from US swamps as cultivated fruit delicacy (Rueters)
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 16:01:02 -0500
Matt,
I've not really paid that much attention to when the native cockspur
hawthorn(C.crus-galli) ripens fruit here - it's small and not worth picking
to eat or jelly, so far as I can tell. Have a number of them growing around
the farm, and while I notice them in bloom, I can't say that I've ever
noticed them in fruit.
Seems that, to the best of my recollection, the ornamental hawthorns,
planted around town, are much later-fruiting.
Years ago, while repairing fence on a nearby farm(just across the hollow),
so that the elderly gentleman's cows would 'stay home' instead of eating my
pasture, I noticed that he had a very healthy population of hawthorns,
including a number of thornless specimens, growing throughout his
'pastures'.
Lucky
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Subject: Re: [nafex] Mayhaw emerges from US swamps as cultivated fruit
delicacy (Rueters)
Wow, Mayhaws are ripe that early? When do other hawthorn species ripen in
your area? Around here, most hawthorns don't ripen until Jul, Aug, Sept.
Definitely way after serviceberries, and not an 'early' fruit at all.