Re: OT: Bois d'Arc
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] OT: Bois d'Arc
- From: w*@watervalley.net
- Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 17:14:06 -0500
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> Walta, we don't call them 'horse apples', we call them 'mock oranges.'
> They are very easy from seed, although extricating the seed from the
> fruit is a stainy mess.
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> Anner, in Virginia
> ChatOWhitehall@aol.com
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Anner, I checked some other sites and did find a reference to horse apples as
being the fruit of the bois d'arc tree. Interesting story of kids
playing baseball with with them. I also found a reference to horse
apples as being horse 'pucky' or manure. So, in different parts of
the country we have different meanings.
The mock orange here is a shrub with dogwood-like blossoms,
often called English dogwood, but I think that is incorrect, too.
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS 7/8 USA (found loropetalum today at Home
Depot, Southaven, MS, at $5.91 a gallon...Rosalie, check at H.D.)
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