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Re: edible street trees

> I was actually kind of hoping people could suggest unusual mediteranian
> fruit or nut trees.  There must be some edible trees beyond bay, olives,
> and almonds.  If I could shape a pomegrante into a tree, I'd do that (I'm
> already going to put in a bush).
> 
Well for something pretty unusual you could try a quandong (santalum acuminatun).
 They only grow to about 4 metres and have bright red christmas bauble fruit. If you look at
http://users.academy.net.au/~samantha/bushfood.html you'll see them down
the side of the page and there are a few quandong related links there.
They like to grow in lawn since they are semi-parasitic ( but they don't klll
the host, its more like their roots snuggle up for company). The fruits are
a bit peachy and very tart. I'd suggest getting a selected grafted variety to be
sure you'd get nice fruit. There is quandong research going on in the US so
it should be possible to get such a variety. They grow naturally in the adelaide
region (I picked fruit from a road side tree before christmas) so they're definitely
mediterranean. 

Another possibility would be (though not really fruiting)  kurrajong populensis. This
is a really huge handsome tree which gets covered in amazing red flowers in summer 
so the whole tree is red. It has big boat shaped seed pods and the seeds are edible but you have
to watch out for the irritant hairs. This tree is used as a street tree around australia.

Samantha
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