Do you like Different

Fruit? Stanton Gill

Extension Specialist

University of Maryland Cooperative Extension and Professor Montgomery

College Landsape Technology Program

Favorite Asian pears:

Shinseki- Late august – thin skin

Hosui- early Sept

Yoinashi- mid-September

Ya-Li – Chinese pear – excellent Oct.

Atago – October

Olympic- late oct

Blueberry at MacBride and

Gill Falcon Ridge Farm

Mulch blueberries every year

Top varieties of blueberries

Chandler out fo4 3 years now

Reka- new

Patriot

Draper - new

Looking for a Native Tree- Paw Paw (Asimina triloba)

Mitchell – fruit is medium size is 6 – 8”

length with slightly yellow skin and

golden flesh. Excellent flavor

Overleese – fruit is large 8” and larger

with yellow flesh and excellent flavor.

This selection has large seeds which

are easily removed.

NC-1- Fruit is large with a yellow flesh.

Excellent flavor.

Prolific – the fruit is large and with a

gold color flesh and excellent flavor.

Sunflower – the fruit is medium to large

sized. The skin is yellow and flesh is

golden. This selection is reported to be

self-fertile

Mary Foos Johnson – the fruit is

medium to large. The skin is yellow and

the flesh is gold.

Taylor- small fruit with a green skin and

yellow flesh. The flavor is mild and

excellent.

Persimmons

Diospyros virginiana – American persimmon

Diospyros kaki- oriental persimmon

Oriental persimmons

Astringent and non astringent

Jiro is non astringent Tanenashi is astringent

Goji berry

Lycium barbarum

From the Himalayan Mountains, Tibet and

Mongolia

A very unique plant, Honeyberry is actually

a species of Honeysuckle with sweet and

tasty fruit.

Goji Berry

This very hardy species is a small bush native to Eastern Siberia and the Russian Far East, where, from ancient times, the native people have gathered and consumed the fruit in large quantities. Honeyberry is particularly valued for its tasty blueberry–like fruit, its extremely early ripening, at least two weeks before strawberries, and for its exceptional hardiness, to below minus 40° F.

Dried Goji berry – when picking wear gloves to keep fruit

from turning dark

Saskatoons Fruit?

The Latin name for Saskatoons is

Amelanchier alnifolia.