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Post by castanea on Sept 16, 2012 12:02:44 GMT -5
some of the che i've had has been great. personally i'd put it slightly above kousa for out of hand. Where did you get your che? The gene pool in the US is tiny. |
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Post by khoomeizhi on Sept 16, 2012 12:49:48 GMT -5
don't know the 'real' origin, it's at...i think it was ron lance's property in mills river, nc. i've got some genetic material from those trees, but my own haven't fruited yet.
part of why i liked it more than kousa is that the che fruit's skin is edible, so it's easier to eat and enjoy. my opinion. flavor's maybe not super-exceptional, but it's sweet and fruity and juicy, and the texture's got kousa beat hands down.
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Post by atash on Sept 16, 2012 13:19:27 GMT -5
Interesting discussion. I've eaten the fruits of Cornus mas--it's quite common here--and I thought them good enough to be useful but did not suspect that any might actually be good enough to be "superb".
Too bad the really good one does not have red fruit; the intensity of the red is really eye-popping.
One thing it has in its favor as a fruit: it is fairly disease-resistant here, compared to apples and pears that get scab, gypsy moths, and other pests and diseases, peaches that die of peach leaf curl, strawberries that die of root rot, and so on. Any fruit that's reasonably good, that actually bears in this climate, I'm all for!
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Post by castanea on Sept 16, 2012 13:39:16 GMT -5
don't know the 'real' origin, it's at...i think it was ron lance's property in mills river, nc. i've got some genetic material from those trees, but my own haven't fruited yet. part of why i liked it more than kousa is that the che fruit's skin is edible, so it's easier to eat and enjoy. my opinion. flavor's maybe not super-exceptional, but it's sweet and fruity and juicy, and the texture's got kousa beat hands down. Do you get seeds from your fruit? |
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Post by khoomeizhi on Sept 16, 2012 15:03:27 GMT -5
nope.
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Post by MikeH on Sept 16, 2012 16:53:24 GMT -5
Lee Reich's notes on Che propagation Attachments:
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Post by castanea on Sept 16, 2012 20:28:13 GMT -5
I don't like eating che, but I think it makes a wonderful ornamental tree. It's a very tough tree, drought tolerant and impervious to pests and diseases.
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Post by samyaza on Sept 25, 2012 8:25:30 GMT -5
atash : do you mean Cornus mas also grows wild in America ? I thought it was native to Europe. I know people here who pick them like crazy and keep their places secret, as for mushrooms ;D
My father told me they bear fruits on a two-year period : a year it yields huge, the other, almost nothing.
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