Kat2

when visiting in Central FL just after Christmas. The gifter insisted I was receiving cherry starts but the leaves don't look like any I've ever seen; they're about 1 1/2 to 2" long, mid green and slightly curled with very smooth edes. I asked about fruit on her 4 to 5' tall tree but it's never bloomed. This woman is pretty smart about plants (raises orchids and such) so, unless someone handed her something that slipped by, it is a cherry. Of some kind...

If so, what kind could it be? Not sure my cuttings will take but they seem happy after being Rootoned, placed in a pot and residing in a huge white Bealls's bag where I forget to tug them 5 times a day. (I'm very impatient.) If these don't make it, I could get more cuttings. But I would really like to know whether or not to bother. I looked up cherries that grow in FL and don't think these are either Surinams or Barbados but I could be wrong. (Her little tree would have taken to being hedged easily IMO.)

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sunfish

sunfish

Dangermouse01

Any pictures?
I have Cherry of the Rio Grande (Eugenia Aggregata).

DM

trebor

Ha ha I know nothing about growing cherries But! Im an expert cherry consumer.. Or maybe i should say I hog them! They just do not grow here im to far south. Thats the one fruit other than bananas and Papaya tomatoes cucumber legumes herbs that I'd like to grow..

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If ya can't eat it, it ain't growing in my back yard !

Kat2

I've asked for pictures; we'll see if I get them. I looked at images of that variety and the leaves look very similar. Have you had fruit from yours?

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Dangermouse01

I got some fruits last year (2013, at about 4-5' tall), catbirds (and probably the jays, cardinals and mocking birds) got more of them, before I realized what was happening.
Photo of fruit before it ripened.


The vertical branch with the peeling bark is from the CRG, ask your gift-er if her's has bark like that (don't know if that is typical with the northern, chill-hour required type cherries, I'm not from up-there).
Flower.


Between the interesting bark, nice flowers (bee magnet) and edible fruit, I like it.

DM

Kat2

I'm holding a leaf; it's the perfect match for yours! I will ask about the bark. My benefactress dreams of eating cherries she grows in FL; sound like this might be a good one. (I have no idea if she started it from seed or how long she's had the plant.)

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Kat2

Your source offers trees of various ages with no mention of whether they're yet fruiting. I've searched a lot about this plant but cannot find out how long it takes to produce from cuttings. Seed? Anywhere from 3 to 5 years are the claims. I've requested pictures from my contact down there and for any additional information. As I said, it's about 4 to 5' tall with a 2 to 3" diameter trunk--this is based on a quick look and clip while I was walking an acre being offered all manor of seeds/clippings/starts so my memory is a bit fuzzy.

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sunfish

So you know it is not a true cherry tree

Kat2

Yes, I know and now I think I know it's a Barbados "cherry". (My contact would have no way of suggesting that name without having called the donor.) Why the heck she told me she had no clue as to variety while cutting branches boggles my mind. (I did once grow both Nanking and Hansen bush cherries so I sometimes confused the names when gifting seedlings but I'd trashed the Hansen's after the 1st crop - ever had a chokecherry--raw? Blech! So there was no chance my recipients got a start of that foulness.)

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