16-09-2004, 08:32 PM
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from (Nick Maclaren) contains these words:
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Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
While picking black nightshade berries (yes, Nick, I still nosh them!) I
found two plants which had translucent gold berries, rather than the
purple-pigmented ones.
I've seen elderberries the same colour, but I've never seen one of these
before.
Well, if they breed true, are delicious, and don't kill anyone, you
may have made your fortune :-)
Berries are slightly (but only slightly) larger, and sweeter. I've
offered seeds to the Millennium Seed Bank at Kew.
I'd suspect a recessive gene, so next year I'm going to grow a patch of
the seeds, and with any which come true, try cross-pollination with
so-called Garden Huckleberries, and then with plants from their seeds,
cross-pollinate again, until (with any luck) I get golden Garden
Huckleberries, or Garden Golden Huckleberries.
(If you've ever seen a garden huckleberry, it's just a jumped-up Solanum
nigrum...)
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