After three years I have finally gotten a good flowering and fruiting display from this plant. It is supposed to be a zone 7 species, so perhaps our mild winter was the reason for the success, but success it is! These fruits are beautiful. In fact, they look good enough to eat. My son wants to try them. Does anyone know if these fruits are edible or not?
Scott
One more shot.
Scott
Yep, edible, but VERY sharp. Better off making jam with them. They're full of vitamin C, though, if you're willing to eat them raw (unfortunately jam-making tends to destroy most of the vitamin C).
Resin
I just planted one here too. If global warming continues, I'll have a jump on it! And if not, I'll be losing a hundred or more plants of various types that have been pushing the envelope here these past few years.
Guy S.
Thanks for the answers! My son and I will go taste a few this afternoon, although I hate to pick such ornamental fruit.
Guy, I usually see this plant listed as zone 7, but sometimes as zone 6. I have mine in a fairly protected, if very shady, site. I've never had any foliage burn, even at -12F, but this is, as I said, my first year that flowers snuck through unscathed from winter burn, and hence the fruit.
I did make the mistake of planting my two shrubs right next to a narrow path. Ouch! The leaf spines are murderous. In the shade (at least), it wants to flop over and I've had to support it.
Scott
I'll listen out for the sharp intake of breath as the sourness hits the tongues . . . should be audible clear across the Atlantic ;-))
Resin
I just got one this year also...don't know why I haven't had one before since I love them and they love shade. gorgeous berries
