Wednesday, February 22, 2012

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Fruit Warehouse | Sea-buckthorn | In western Europe, it is largely confined to sea Coasts where salt spray off the sea prevents other larger plants from out-competing it, but in central Asia it is more widespread in dry semi-desert sites where other plants can not survive the dry conditions.

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postheadericon Saskatoon berry ( Amelanchier alnifolia )


Fruit Warehouse | Saskatoon berry ( Amelanchier alnifolia ) | The name derives from the Cree inanimate noun misâskwatômina (sg saskatoonberry misâskwatômin NI, NI misâskwatômina saskatoonberries pl). The city of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan is named after the berry. Amelanchier alnifolia, the Saskatoon, Pacific serviceberry, shadbush alder-leaf, dwarf shadbush, or western juneberry, is a shrub with edible berry-like fruit, native to North America from Alaska across most of western Canada and in the western and north central United States. Historically it was also called "pigeon berry".

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Fruit Warehouse | Rose hip | Rose hips have recently Become popular as a healthy treat for pet chinchillas and guinea pigs. Rose hips Provide a sugarless, safe way to increase of Their vitamin C intake. The rose hip, or rose haw, is the fruit of the rose plant, that is Typically red-to-orange, but ranges from dark purple to black in some species. Rose hips begin to form in spring, and ripen in late summer through autumn. Rose hips are used for herbal tea, watches, jelly, syrup, soup, beverages, pies, bread, wine, and marmalade.

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postheadericon Quince ( Cydonia oblonga )


Fruit Warehouse | Quince ( Cydonia oblonga ) | Quince is used as a food plant by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species Including brown-tail, Bucculatrix bechsteinella, Bucculatrix pomifoliella, Coleophora cerasivorella, Coleophora malivorella, green pug moth and winter. The immature fruit is green with dense gray-white pubescence, most of the which rubs off before maturity in late autumn when the fruit changes color to yellow with hard, strongly perfumed flesh.
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Fruit Warehouse | Rowan | The name rowan was originally applied to the species Sorbus aucuparia, and is also used for other species in subgenus Sorbus Sorbus. The rowans or mountain-ashes are shrubs or small trees in the genus Sorbus of family Rosaceae.
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postheadericon Redcurrant ( Ribes rubrum )


Fruit Warehouse| Redcurrant ( Ribes rubrum ) | An established bush can Produce 3-4 kilos of berries from mid to late summer.  The redcurrant (or red currant), Ribes rubrum, is a member of the genus Ribes in the gooseberry family Grossulariaceae, native to parts of western Europe (Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands, Northern Italy, Northern Spain, Portugal and Poland).

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postheadericon Loquat ( Eriobotrya japonica )


Fruit Warehouse | Loquat ( Eriobotrya japonica ) | The leaves are alternate, simple, 10-25 cm long, dark green, tough and leathery in texture, with a serrated margin, and densely velvety-hairy below with thick yellow-brown pubescence; the young leaves are also densely pubescent above, but this soon rubs off. Eriobotrya japonica is an evergreen large shrub or small tree, with a rounded crown, short trunk and Woolly new Twigs.

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postheadericon Gooseberry ( Ribes uva-crispa )


Fruit Warehouse | Gooseberry ( Ribes uva-crispa ) | Gooseberry bushes Produce an edible fruit and are grown on both a commercial and domestic basis. The gooseberry is a straggling bush growing to 1-3 meters (3-10 feet) tall, the branches being thickly set with sharp spines, standing out singly or in diverging Tufts of two or three from the bases of the short spurs or lateral leaf shoots. The fruit of wild gooseberries is smaller than in the cultivated varieties, but is Often of good flavor; Generally it is hairy, but in one variety smooth, constituting the R. uva-crispa of writers; berries' color is usually green, but there are red variants and occasionally deep purple berries occur.

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