Re: [AlpacaTalk] Cherry trees: how toxic?

David: I have the a publication in the alpaca
site files which
was written by Jim Perry for the that lecture.
Jim was the seller who supplied my starter herd
in 2000.
He made an inspection of my farm and we cleared
out the suspect
trees. One was a yew shrub and one was a grove
of black wild cherry
trees. To this day, I inspect the pastures every
spring and cut out
any suspicious saplings that might be coming up
from the root of the
trees we took out in 2000. I have one section
not in pasture that I
overlooked for a couple of years. This spring I
found several five feet
tall cherry trees hidden in the underbrush. I am
digging them out
with a bobcat and hauling them off. l

Elwin
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From: David Friedman
To: AlpacaTalk@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: [AlpacaTalk] Cherry trees: how
toxic?

Hi Laurel,

No botanical expert here, by any means, but I
recall a lecture by Jim
Perry (who IS and expert), at the National
Show (2003?). Jim stated,
if memory serves, that he considered all
prunus species, members of
the rosacea family, to be toxic, to a lesser
or greater extent,
producing cyanogenic glycosides, such as
amygdalin, etc. Wouldn't
that include all cheries? If so, wouldn't
they all be, in theory, toxic?

Any botanical toxicologists out there, who
might wish to clarify this?

Dave

David & Esther Friedman
Adirondack Alpacas
"From the Womb to the Loom"
9568 Old Stage Road
Remsen, NY 13438
www.newyorkalpacas.com
315-831-3040

At 07:44 AM 4/23/2006, you wrote:
>First have these trees positively identified
as the Black Cherry
>Trees that cause these problems. Local
vernacular gives trees
>different names, and these may or may not be
black
>cherries. Fruiting cherries (Bing, Pie
cherries, and the like) are
>a completely different species from the Black
Cherry which produces
>this problem. They are more closely related
to apples.
>
>States have state foresters, just like they
have extension agents
>for farms, so take advnatage of this resource
whenever you have a
>tree question. They can also advise you
about lumbering etc. In
>years past, there was often a bent toward
harvesting trees, so they
>would be quick to advise to cut things down
if they were good lumber
>trees, but now, at least in our local
experience, they are a bit
>less likely to encourage logging.
Thankfully.
>
>Laurel
>
>Tim & Laurel Shouvlin
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