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

[Jerry Friedman]

Then would you mind elaborating on those reasons?  An
example of such a plant would be helpful.

I'll give an example of why I doubt it: all willows are
dioecious, and very few have been cultivated.

Jerry Friedman

--- On Tue, 11/3/09, brunians at brunians.org <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:
> It's not really a claim. I wouldn't
> call it a claim.
> 
> I do have reasons why I say it, yes.

I wrote:
> 
> > 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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