Naturalized Fruit Planting

The Naturalized Fruit Planting includes many unusual fruit specimens as well as larger fruit trees.  Goldcot apricot, Gold Sweet Cherry, Redstar Cornelian Cherry, Siretskii Cornelian Cherry, Rosina mountain ash, Rabina mountain ash, Ivan's Beauty mountain ash, Ivan's Belle mountain ash, Indian Blood peach, Aromatnya Quince, Li Jujube, Illinois everbearing mulberry, contorted mulberry, weeping mulberry, Marron medlar,

On the slope planting (adjacent to the Naturalized Fruit Planting) we have Gurgins gift seaberry, Leikora seaberry and a seaberry male pollinizer, and Wolfberry.

(Photo right is of a jujube fruit just beginning to color.)

See the map.  Jerry Weimer, a graduate student in biology at Missouri State, produced this map in 2006 based on tree to tree measurements beginning with three reference trees.  The distance from the first target tree was measured clockwise to each of the three reference trees.  Once this target was measured from the reference trees, it could also be used as a reference tree.  This process was followed until all 22 trees were measured.  The data was used to generate the map in the Interpnt method which can be used to produce accurate maps of trees based solely on tree diameter and tree-to-tree distance measurements. The program can be downloaded at http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/data/p02/hf023/HF023-data.html and is written in R programming language (see http://www.r-project.org/ ).