Re: Mystery Canaries...
- Subject: Re: Mystery Canaries...
- From: R* G*
- Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 09:40:37 -0800
I can't speak for the rest of it, but that pod certainly doesn't belong to
Jacaranda, 1-1.5 inches long, not 3x2 as you describe.
Tim Longville wrote:
> The mystery deepens.... Gordon's description - viz,
>
> > if it is Araujia serifera the pod looks like a very large(four to six
> inches long) almond fruit and is filled with a silky mass of fibres, as well
> as hundreds of small black seeds >
>
> - doesn't sound like what I have. The 'pod' was *very* shallow - almost no
> depth at all - , but quite wide and long (say 3" by 2") - ie, exactly like
> two almost flat sea-creature-shells fitted together - and inside were simply
> the seeds, no filling, and the seeds weren't small and black but, as I think
> I said originally, almost exactly like those of Cardiocrinum giganteum, viz,
> with a brown central 'kernel' and a surrounding thin transparent 'membrane,'
> floating for the purpose of.
>
> Does this put Hugo's jacaranda back in the frame?
>
> Tim
