Talk:Damson

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[edit] Muscadine grape

This page appears to be lost in the ether. The Muscadine page doesn't link to it, and this page doesn't even mention muscadine.

"Bullis and its variants (bullace, bullet grape, bull grape) are very old names for dark-fruited muscadines." http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/hil/hil-8203.html

Forgive my ignorance, but why would a page about a plum cultivar have anything to do with a grape? Damsons grow on trees, not vines, and have stones, not seeds Carre 22:15, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Ahh, I see now - you're referring to the quoted extract from the link. See the sentence that follow your extract:

"or, alternatively, muscadines were called "Bullace" because of their resemblance to a European plum of the same name, and that Bullis, Bull and Bullet are all corruptions of the Bullace!"

This page is about the "European plum of the same name". See http://www.brickfieldspark.org/data/bullace.htm for more on the Damson use of "Bullace". It seems you're coming here with a US-centric POV; nothing wrong with that - I'm here with a UK POV :). Perhaps what's needed then, if you got to the Damson page from a Bullace search, is a disambiguation page at Bullace, pointing either here, or the Muscadine page, depending on context. Carre 22:38, 13 November 2006 (UTC)