Re: Re: OT-CHAT: Invasive Plants
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Re: OT-CHAT: Invasive Plants
- From: B* S*
- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 12:12:07 -0500
On 3/21/02 12:01 PM, "wmoores" <wmoores@watervalley.net> wrote:
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> On 21 Mar 2002 at 10:33, Racheal Nekuda wrote:
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> And, I see trumpet vine potted and for sale at Wal-Mart. I cannot
> believe anybody would buy it. Across the road from me in the
> woods is a gigantic vine of it climbing a tree people here call 'The
> Devil's Backbone.' A double dose of undesirables! It is really a
> nasty tree with massive thorns and hard wood like bois d'arc (horse
> apples).
Walter, you can also buy trumpet vine at a premium price from such sources
as Wayside Gardens.
I wonder if your Devil's Backbone tree is our Osage Orange. Sounds
similar--Latin name Maclura pomifera. Not native here, but planted, often
as hedging for pastures as it makes an imprenetrable thicket if regularly
chopped. Not far from here, Patrick Henry's old homeplace (Red Hill) has
the largest Osage Orange in the country--looks to be at least 5 ft in
diameter.
Bill Shear
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