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Dear All, Sept 19, 2006
Does anyone have direct experience with Buckthorn (Rhamnus frangula)
fruit ?
It took a while to get rolling, 300 years more or less, but near
Kentville it apparently now knows how introduced plants are supposed to
act and is very agressive in waste places, glades, clear-cuts and edges.
An extract of the bark (Frangula, which contains frangulin) was at
one time used as a laxative but I have no definite information on the
fruit. I have recently eaten one fruit, less seeds and skin, on each of
two occasions with no effects. A handfull might be a different matter
but the warning about R. alnifolia that 'Them is terrible things for the
guts' indicates caution. They were fairly sweet and juicy but without
obvious flavor.
I wonder if they could be used for wine.
Yours truly, Dave Webster, Kentville
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