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

[brunians at brunians.org]

It's not really a claim. I wouldn't call it a claim.

I do have reasons why I say it, yes.


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> Do you have any basis for that extremely strange claim about
> dioecious plants?  Is there even a single example?
>
> Jerry Friedman
>
> --- On Tue, 11/3/09, brunians at brunians.org <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:
>
>> From: brunians at brunians.org <brunians at brunians.org>
>> Pardon, I meant seperate male and
>> female plants, not seperate flowers on
>> the same stem. .
>>
>>
>> > 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."
>> >>
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