Amelanchier canadensis

Amelanchier canadensis
(L.) Medik.

Ordre	Rosales
Famille	Rosaceae
Genre	Amelanchier

2n =

Origine :

sauvage et cultivé

Français
Anglais

Résumé des usages

• fruit comestible

Classification

Amelanchier canadensis (L.) Medik. (1793)

basionyme :

• Mespilus canadensis L. (1753)

Usages

Amelanchier canadensis Medic. GRAPE-PEAR. JUNEBERRY. SERVICE BERRY. SHAD. SWEET PEAR. North America and eastern Asia. This bush or small tree, according to the variety, is a native of the northern portion of America and eastern Asia. Gray describes five forms. For many years a Mr. Smith, Cambridge, Massachusetts, has cultivated var. oblongifolia in his garden and in 1881 exhibited a plate of very palatable fruit at the Massachusetts Horticultural Society's show. The berries are eaten in large quantities, fresh or dried, by the Indians of the Northwest. The fruit is called by the French in Canada poires, in Maine sweet pear and from early times has been dried and eaten by the natives. It is called grape-pear in places, and its fruit is of a purplish color and an agreeable, sweet taste. The pea-sized fruit is said to be the finest fruit of the Saskatchewan country and to be used by the Cree Indians both fresh and dried.

Sturtevant, Notes on edible plants, 1919.

Références

• Dambourney, Louis-Alexandre, 1786 Recueil de procédés et d'expériences sur les teintures solides que nos végétaux indigènes communiquent aux laines & aux lainages. Paris, De l'imprimerie de Ph.-D. Pierres, premier imprimeur ordinaire du roi. 407 p. Voir sur Pl@ntUse

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