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Home Fruit Growing less common fruits. These are the fruit plants that you may not be familiar with, that are often hard to find except in specialty fruit nurseries and catalogs, and usually may only be found as a species with no cultivars.
They’re often called “minor” crops or fruits, compared to major ones such as strawberries and apples. Some of these fruits are delicious eaten right off the plant, some are best only if they’re cooked, and still others are enjoyed more by wildlife or those who have grown up with them and learned to like their unusual flavors. Every section of North America has its own native fruits including beach plums, buffalo berries, bearberries, chokecherries, sand cherries, cranberries, highbush cranberries, and huckleberries. Some of these listed here may be more common commercially, but not generally in home landscapes. Or they may be just in home landscapes and not grown commercially. e2747.
Raspberries. Strawberries.