![]() ‘Kasanlaker’ is a large fruited cultivar which is available from nurseries in Western Europe. Turkey has today an important Cornelian cherry industry. There are also partially self-fertile varieties.Ĭornus mas has been cultivated commercially for centuries in the Caucasus and Central Asia. ´Elegantnyj´, ´Jalt´, ´Kijevskij´, ´Lukjanovskij´, ´Vydubeckij´ are Russian in origin ´Devin´, ´Olomoucky, ´Ruzynsky´, ´Sokolnicky´, ´Titus´ are from Czechoslovakia and Slovakia ´Joliko´ and ´Fruchtal´ are Austrian and ‘Ntoulia 1’ and ‘Ntoulia 2’ are Greek.< (Edit: My friend Jesper Bay tells me that there’s also a black fruited variety!) There are also a number of ornamental varieties, such as the wonderful variegated form I once saw laden with fruit in the Oxford Botanical Garden (see the pictures below). There are many varieties of cornelian cherry bred for bigger fruits, there are also pear shaped fruit varieties and yellow cultivars. I love the tart taste of these! The seed will be offered to members of Norwegian Seed Savers! Dried Cornelian Cherries These will be used later in the winter with a mulltitude of other dried fruit. Although not as good as those, I enjoyed the taste and they will this winter be part of my late winter dried fruit mixes that I eat every morning for breakfast once the fresh apples are finished. ![]() My favourite dried fruit are sour cherries. Good to have confirmed that they can give a crop in Trondheim At Ringve.Īlthough sour tasting raw, I was intrigued to see what they would taste like dried. These bushes are located in a much more sunny spot than in my garden. ![]() The bushes at Ringve, which were in a warmer and much sunnier spot than in my garden, were, on the other hand, laden with ripe fruit! At Ringve Botanical Garden in Trondheim the bushes were laden with berries. I finally got a good crop on my two plants, but only one of the two bushes had ripe fruit. Perhaps we’ll make Polish Olives with them? It would be nice with a home grown olive surrogate? See Szczepaniak et al. It did the trick as my two bushes were full of fruit this year, but only a few fruit on one of the bushes turned red and probably weren’t fully ripe. I finally got a second plant going thanks to a gardening friend Alvilde who didn’t want hers anymore, but still no fruit, maybe it was a clone of the first one? This spring I took a few sprigs of flowering twigs from a couple of plants at the botanical garden at Ringve and put them next to my two plants. I’ve several times tried to propagate more plants but they always died. I’ve long had a Cornelian cherry ( Cornus mas) in the garden without a partner.
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