I may have found the mother plant of these eleagnus trees. It is now
covered with small pinkish-red berries. Does that sound like Autumn
Olive to you?
I hesitate to taste berries when not fairly sure of the species of
tree.
On Jul 11, 9:58 am, !!yggdras...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Kira Dirlik) wrote:
> They are edible, and my son likes them and makes a jam out of them,
> but they are so small, it's not worth it. Their 2 weeks of delicious
> smell in the Spring makes me keep some groves around. (Well, no way
> to remove them all in our neighborhood, anyway.... thousands, no
> exaggeration).
> Kira
>
> On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 13:25:20 -0700, ncstockguy <ncstock...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>
> >I see some types have edible berries? Are yours edible? That will
> >probably enter into whether I take them all out and go looking to kill
> >more, or keep a few around.
>
> >On Jul 5, 11:00 am, !!yggdras...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Kira Dirlik) wrote:
> >> My 7 acre lot was completely covered with eleagnus. Mine is
> >> deciduous, has reddish and yellow berries in the fall, and
> >> good-smelling light yellow flowers in the spring. It is horribly
> >> invasive. I have pulled hundred of them. Luckily they grow back
> >> slowly, but this year there is a huge "bumper crop" of them coming
> >> back all over. I have left one batch purposely as a privacy hedge,
> >> and as long as you stay on top of it, it won't become invasive. Mine
> >> had a 60 year start when I got the lot.
> >> Kira
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