I had the variagated cornus mas years ago, but it never really established for me and by the next spring it was gone.
I also have a red fruited variety, which produces so it must be self-fertile, but the fruit was mealy last fall. The tree basically shares space with my medlar and I’m sure either one would do better were it the only tree in its space, but generally they produce a little each year so I don’t mind the lack of production.
Polish market? Maybe Polonia in Bristol?
@hobilus the store was Euro Grocery in Rocky Hill.
My Coral Blaze I planted this fall looks like it is just starting to break the lowest buds this morning as the frost melted off.
My cultivars Yellow and Coral Blaze are struggling with drought and some minor cosmetic disease for their first season. hoping they hang on. I pre-ordered Aliosha, Yugo Sweet, and Black Plum to be shipped in 2025. Broken Arrow nursery is grafting Flava this year for sale in spring 2025 or 2026.
Update: mine are still alive, but that’s about all I can say for them. I suspect near St. Paul is too far north for them.
I grow Titus, which you can find on @wildforager’s list as well as Mykolka/Nikolka - got that one last year. I also grow some seedlings from the wild populations I forage.
Not sure about the veracity of the over 20% sugar content of Titus, but it is very sweet. It is not ripe yet and it is already much sweeter than “normal” cornelian cherries.
I got Nikolka to prolong my season and am considering Jolico to extend it into autumn. Both are on the larger side, which is a plus.
However, sweetness is not the deciding quality for me. It is the overall typical CM flavour, texture and colour.
I grew up on cornelian cherry compote - I could eat a jar a day and the sweet varieties just don’t measure up to wild stuff - hence my wild transplants and foraging when I want to make compote or juice (made the same way as compote but you need stronger flavour, including tartness/tanins, to make it worthwhile - sugar can be added easily).
I haven’t tasted a yellow variety (nobody I know grows it) but I expect it to lack the punch of the red fruit, which would be a minus for me.
They grow and bear well in 5a in Slovakia, but for colder climates, you have to give them a microclimate (southern wall or slope, ideally a rocky one so it can accumulate heat from the sun). Most populations in the wild grow on rocky ridges and from zone 6a below you will find them on protected southern slopes sheltered by pine trees.
I don’t grow Titus right now but I would like to. I do grow Devin and thats a nice one.
@wildforager I noticed that the pictures for Sunrise are different between One Green World and Whitman Farms. I see that you have the variety and was wondering if you recall your source or if you know if they are the same at the two sources.
I got mine from Whitman Farms. I can’t really comment on the one from OGW but I would imagine that they are the same. Both nurseries are in OR. After looking at the picture on the Whitman website, that’s not Sunrise. The OGW picture is what I’m growing. I think Lucile just got lazy and used a picture from Elegant or Pioneer.
@wildforager Thank you for the reply! Do you like the variety?
Whitman farms is great but I have found their pictures misleading before. for example in their picture of “Big Fruit” Cornus mas, the fruit appears to be a mix of yellow and red shades in their pictures, but when ripe, the entire fruit is red.
I actually had to add citric acid to the jelly I made from Titus a few weeks back. I was sick and could not harvest it before full ripeness. Now, I feel like a blasphemist. 
Where did you source Titus?
Tana lives in Slovakia
As Mike writes, myself and Titus come from roughly the same area.
Cornelian Cherry is native here in Austria. It grows on rocky, sunny southern slopes on alkaline soil, as an understory in sparse oak and pine forest, along forest edges and in hedges/thickets, in zone 6/7 climate.
Yea, I like it, but I like all cornelian cherries. lol. Its not a rock star but its better than average. I haven’t tested the brix on it yet but I will sometime. My tree is still somewhat small.
Thank you for the thoughts on it! I planted it this past spring as my first cornelian cherry. Hoping to plant Aliosha next spring and if, all goes well, I will grow out seedlings and graft back to the mother trees (which I understand might be difficult but should be possible).
