Anyone Know anything about Autumn Olive?

It is growing like crazy around here and a search on google says it may be the miracle prevention and treatment for cancer and lots of things.

Makes a great jam, jelly, smoothie and even wine.

They are growing all over the east coast and are in full red fruity abundance.

I just made me and my son, a nine year old, some hot tea (it is chilly hear near NYC) with a little sugar and it was simply lovely.

I have never seen a fruit so abundant. I know it is invasive but with 10-20 times the lycopene in tomatoes it MIGHT be a blessing from the Most High.

Anyone else heard of or tried this stuff.

It is simply awesome and grows free for the taking all over.

I was just told by a botanist that if I didn't get rid of my Autumn Olive tree, he'd come and remove it himself! I didn't even know I had it - we have 50 acres, and he was walking around on our property, and noticed the tree.

He said that it is SO invasive that it will kill off all native species of trees and other plants.

Sooooooooooo, do you want mine? :P

roots berries leaves and seeds.

It is really really good for you.

They are almost impiossible to kill but were planted ALL OVER in the 19th century.

Starlings love them but their shade does take over the neighborhood.

God might have a plan for it. It is VERY nutritious and may even cure or stop or prevent LOTS of cancers as it gets easily absorbed into the organs from liver to lungs to ovaries and testes and knocks off the free radicals that destroy you.

Get all the fruit/seeds off it and eat them and tell him to relax as you will take care of it.

Cutting it down and even burning it will just encourage it.

Only heavy herbicides work and they are WORSE I would guess.

It was a pleasant imported plant here in the trackless eastern wastes of Connecticut; then somebody got the idea to use it to line a bypass road around Westerly, Rhode Island. It's here to stay now!

Southeastern Connecticut seems to be prone to invasives. Autumn olive (a.k.a. Russian olive) isn't the worst; bittersweet literally strangles native trees, and an ornamental called multiflora rose has gone berserk and has even jumped the border to Massachusetts.

I didn't know that about making tea out of it. We steer clear of sugar here at la maison des Tangledogs, but I might try grinding a few leaves.

Please be careful, though. There may be such a thing as too much lycopene, and, without meaning to sound snarky, there is such a thing as too many wonder cures. I've become jaded.

Hear ya about a nip in the air! We had our first frost last night.

from Harvard Medical School (interesting but not too many studies yet)

http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/8513/31402/347005.html?d=dmtContent

The studies I read all seemed pretty damn good.


I just put some heated berries on pistachio ice cream (natural) and it was simply heavenly.