The spiny orange - we used to throw the fruit at each other as kids and call them stink bombs.

brunians at brunians.org · 03 Nov 2009, 19:41 · from 2009-November.txt.gz

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: brunians at brunians.org (brunians at brunians.org)
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 14:41:25 -0500 (EST)
Subject: (urth) The spiny orange - we used to throw the fruit at each
 other as kids and call them stink bombs.
In-Reply-To: <51689E4643829846ACEE6B537CC1BB5202A84033 at cleralawexc02.ralaw.com>
References: <51689E4643829846ACEE6B537CC1BB5202A84033 at cleralawexc02.ralaw.com>
Message-ID: <2210.72.171.0.142.1257277285.squirrel at brunians.org>

These plants with seperate male and female flowers are mostly ancient
cultivers.


.



> The spiny orange of Able's bow.    Wolfe has a hand carved walking stick
> of osage orange - carved by Joe Mayhew.
> Maclura pomifera
>>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
> Osage-orange, Horse-apple or Bois D'Arc even know as the Drewedic
> Bullochus (Maclura pomifera) is dioeceous </wiki/Plant_sexuality>  plant
> species, with male and female flowers </wiki/Flower>  on different
> plants. It is a small deciduous </wiki/Deciduous>  tree </wiki/Tree>  or
> large shrub </wiki/Shrub> , typically growing to 8-15 metres (26-49 ft)
> tall. The fruit </wiki/Fruit> , a multiple fruit </wiki/Multiple_fruit>
> , is roughly spherical, but bumpy, and 7-15 cm in diameter, and it is
> filled with a sticky white latex </wiki/Latex>  sap </wiki/Sap> . In
> fall, its color turns a bright yellow-green and it has a faint odor
> similar to that of oranges </wiki/Orange_(fruit)> .[1] <>
> The Osage-orange is commonly used as a tree row windbreak
> </wiki/Windbreak>  in prairie states, which gives it one of its
> colloquial names, "hedge apple".
> The trees acquired the name bois d'arc, or "bow-wood", from early French
> </wiki/France>  settlers who observed the wood being used for war clubs
> and bow-making by Native Americans
> </wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States> .[3] <>  Meriwether Lewis
> was told that the people of the Osage Nation </wiki/Osage_Nation>
> "esteem the wood of this tree for the making of their bows, that they
> travel many hundred miles in quest of it." Many modern bowyers assert
> the wood of the Osage Orange is superior even to English Yew for this
> purpose, though this opinion is by no means unanimous. The trees are
> also known as "bordarch" trees, most likely originating from a
> corruption of "bois d'arc."
>
>
> Any federal tax advice contained herein or in any attachment
> hereto is not intended to be used, and cannot be used, to (1)
> avoid penalties imposed under the Internal Revenue Code or
> (2) support the promotion or marketing of any transaction or
> matter.  This legend has been affixed to comply with U.S.
> Treasury Regulations governing tax
> practice._______________________________________________
> Urth Mailing List
> To post, write urth at urth.net
> Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net

An unofficial mirror of a public mailing list · about & removal requests · download the archive · before the list · original archive at urth.net