I was able to get a few bare - rootPrunus virginianatrees for our nursery . We ’re a little far to the south for “ chokecherry ” , as its ordinarily call , but we ’re going to try and push it by putting some in partial tone .
Prunus virginianais an interesting wild cherry whch could fit into the bush layer of a intellectual nourishment forest . TheNorth Carolina State Extension internet site notes :
Prunus virginiana is a large native deciduous bush or a pocket-size tree . Growing in the natural state , it can organize thickets , which can become very dense . The spread can start from the shallow , spreading stem system that may take form extra plants from the extended underground runner . In the wild , it can be found growing in multiple growing condition in woodlands , ravines , slopes , thickets , and open force field .
When immature , the Chuck Berry have a rumple grain . These berries have a acrimonious taste , giving this plant the common name chokeberry .
An authoritative plant for wildlife . The fruits , leaves , seeds , and branchlet are used by animals both large and small . Large brute include bear , moose , coyotes , bighorn sheep graze the foliation . chick rust the fruits , while chipmunk , mice , and squirrel eat the semen . It is also a host plant for many insects that can destroy the leaf , wood , sap , flowers , and fruit while feeding .
UMalso notes :
The fruit on chokecherry is biting when raw so it is not recommended to run through them right on off the tree diagram . They can be cook and made into preserves , fix , PIE , and sauce .
PFAF sharesmore on its comestible uses :
Fruit – in the altogether or cook . Very harsh , it is unremarkably used in Proto-Indo European , jelly etc . Dark and juicy , it is sometimes edible raw when full mature . The yield can be dried and is then quite nice raw . The fruit is up to 8 millimetre in diam and contains a single large seed . Seed – stark naked or cooked . Very nutrient , they are total to pemmican . Do not eat the cum if it is too bitter – see the notes above on toxicity . The bark and twigs are a tea substitute .
We ’ll see how it does here . Anyone else try originate them in Florida or Alabama ?
- genus Prunus virginiana image at topby Matt Lavin
