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Can be grafted onto goumi seedlings, autumn olive or rooted as cuttings.
Carmine - Heavy yielding Pacific Northwest selected variety. The fruit has a pleasant, somewhat tart flavor with slight astringency when fully ripe. Fragrant yellow flowers cover the bush in March and draw many pollinators. It is a large shrub that grows to about 15 ft. A nitrogen fixer that tolerates maritime exposure. Zone 5-9.
Large Carmine -
Red Gem - Large fruited, especially productive and flavorful selection from Siberia. Blooms in May, produces red fruits in early July, bears two years after planting. It tastes similar to pie cherries and has small edible pit. Zone 4-8.
Sweet Scarlet Goumi - Large fruited, this is an improved selection grown from cuttings. Durable, solid, large bush/small tree has hundreds of hanging, fragrant, soft yellow blossoms in May, then 3/4" gold-speckled red fruits with a small edible pit in early July. Deciduous and leathery dark green leaves with silvery undersides. Fixes nitrogen. Hardy to -25F.
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