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Original fruit forests of Central Asia
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John S
PDX OR
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September 10, 2015 - 10:20 pm

These links are from another site, permies.com

They show information about the geography and natural history of the areas where many of our fruits came from, and they show the biodiversity.
John S
PDX OR

http://www.koanga.org.nz/knowl.....an-apples/

First few pages of this next one give a comprehensive list of species in the forest...great inspiration for food forest guilds!...

http://media.johnwiley.com.au/.....9681-1.pdf

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DanielW
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October 28, 2015 - 10:59 am

John, this information makes for some fascinating reading!  Thanks for passing it on.

I'm a big proponent of diversity in horticulture and pomiculture, for all sorts of reasons.  Reading about it gives me things to think about.  I recall, if I am correct, that returns to wild or older varieties revived tomato and corn strains, after excessive breeding weakened disease resistance.  The PRI program has improved apple disease resistance by adding Malus floribunda to their breeding program - Pristine, Priscilla, GoldRush, and many more. 

Those fruit forests are important.

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John S
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November 5, 2015 - 10:50 pm

I didn't know about floribunda. Good info.

Gold Rush is maybe my favorite overall variety of apple. They also made Enterprise, another of my favorite apples and another great keeper.

John S
PDX OR

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