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Cedar-apple rust and wild native fruit bearers...

Started by chain, November 28, 2010, 07:50:41 PM

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chain

Getting ready to order up some native species of hawthorne and crab-apple but, how suseptible could these plants be to the cedar-apple rust infection? Just occurred to me of the scattered cedar we have that may be affecting soft mast production of some trees and shrubs.

I usually cut down a few cedar each year for wildlife cover, but understand these cedar rust spores can travel 2-5 miles. :-\

Should I take the easy way and order known resistant fruiting trees and shrubs?

SwampDonkey

Just about every abandoned pasture around here grows up with apple and/or hawthorns as well as black cherry, choke cherry, sumac, high bush cranberry, red osier and mountain ash (usually naturalized European). And that's just the soft fruit bearers.  8)  I know one old pasture that is covered in alder, but the trees coming up in it are mostly black cherry.
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