{"id":23861,"date":"2019-11-17T20:30:38","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T19:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=23861"},"modified":"2019-11-25T12:36:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T11:36:17","slug":"cornelian-cherries-and-polish-olives-in-trondheim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=23861","title":{"rendered":"Cornelian Cherries and Polish Olives in Trondheim"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve long had a Cornelian cherry (Cornus mas<\/em>) in the garden without a partner. The oldest is maybe 20 years old. I\u2019ve several times tried to propagate more plants but they always died. I finally got a second plant going thanks to a gardening friend Alvilde who didn\u2019t 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. 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\u2019t fully ripe.\u00a0 Perhaps we’ll make Polish Olives with them?\u00a0 It would be nice with a home grown olive surrogate? See\u00a0Szczepaniak et al. (2019).<\/p>\n

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I finally got a good crop on my two plants, but only one of the two bushes had ripe fruit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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!<\/p>\n

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At Ringve Botanical Garden in Trondheim the bushes were laden with berries. These bushes are located in a much more sunny spot than in my garden. Good to have confirmed that they can give a crop in Trondheim<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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At Ringve.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Although sour tasting raw, I was intrigued to see what they would taste like dried. My favourite dried fruit are sour cherries. 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.<\/p>\n

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Preparing the fruit for drying. These will be used later in the winter with a mulltitude of other dried fruit. I love the tart taste of these! The seed will be offered to members of Norwegian Seed Savers!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dried Cornelian Cherries<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There are many varieties of cornelian cherry bred for bigger fruits, there are also pear shaped fruit varieties and yellow cultivars. (Edit: My friend Jesper Bay tells me that there’s also a black fruited variety!)<\/em> 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).
\n\u00b4Elegantnyj\u00b4, \u00b4Jalt\u00b4, \u00b4Kijevskij\u00b4, \u00b4Lukjanovskij\u00b4, \u00b4Vydubeckij\u00b4 are Russian in origin; \u00b4Devin\u00b4, \u00b4Olomoucky, \u00b4Ruzynsky\u00b4, \u00b4Sokolnicky\u00b4, \u00b4Titus\u00b4 are from Czechoslovakia and Slovakia; \u00b4Joliko\u00b4 and \u00b4Fruchtal\u00b4 are Austrian and ‘Ntoulia 1’ and ‘Ntoulia 2’\u00a0are Greek.<
\nThere are also partially self-fertile varieties.
\nCornus mas<\/em>\u00a0has been cultivated commercially for centuries in the Caucasus and Central Asia. Turkey has today an important Cornelian cherry industry.
\n‘Kasanlaker’ is a large fruited cultivar which is available from nurseries in Western Europe.<\/p>\n

I remember on a visit to Scandinavia’s oldest forest garden at Holma in Southern Sweden being shown a large Cornus mas in the centre of\u00a0 the city Lund on 1st September 2017! Here’s a picture of various forest gardeners harvesting the fruit (the tree was full):
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Reference
\nOskar\u00a0M.\u00a0Szczepaniak, Kobus\u2011Cisowska, J., \u00a0\u00a0 Kusek, W. and Przeo, M. \u00a02019. Functional properties of Cornelian cherry (Cornus mas L.): a comprehensive review. \u00a0European Food Research and Technology. 245:2071\u20132087<\/p>\n