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Mystery plant
11/09/03 07:57 PM
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Anyone know what this plant is? It sure looked good enough to eat but we didn't.
There was a lot of it at Runestone State Park near Heavener, OK.
Pat
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Re: Mystery plant
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11/09/03 08:50 PM
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Pat,
What plant?
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Like wow, man... More of a mystery about that plant than I thought. Dunnow why it didn't "take"... Here goes again...
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Re: Mystery plant
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11/09/03 09:54 PM
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No idea what it is, but the blooms look like razzberrys. Real pretty.
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Re: Mystery plant
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11/09/03 10:14 PM
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Gary, Not blooms, OM... They are berries. Blooms are long gone.
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Re: Mystery plant
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11/10/03 12:47 AM
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How about a American Beauty Bush (or Beauty Berry), Callicarpa americana?
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11/10/03 08:56 AM
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Hey Doc, I sure agree it is a beauty. Now if it only tasted as good as it looks and had no unwanted side effects.
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Re: Mystery plant
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11/11/03 11:40 AM
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Vote number 2 for American Beauty Berry bush.
(Attracts armadillos by the thousands.) 
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11/11/03 12:50 PM
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They look nice but are they good to eat? If they attract armadillos by the thousands I should plant some to bait the critters into my field of fire. I wouldn't have to wait for the chance encounter but instead cold just monitor the Beautiful Berry patch.
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One of the articles describing this plant said that white-tailed deer love the berries. I don't know about you and your armored armadillos, but the last thing I need is to attract more deer to my yard  .
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11/12/03 08:25 AM
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Doc, Maybe this berry plant needs to be planted like Mimosa trees, so they can be viewed at a distance.
Sure were pretty and no sign that they had been fed on by birds, deer, or anything. The berry plants
were photographed in Oklahoma's Runestone State Park. There was quite a group of them.
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11/25/03 11:31 AM
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Thanks for posting that. We've got dozens of them all over our place, along with tons of deer. I've never noticed ANY kind of animal or bird eating the berries, but the deer and grasshoppers love the leaves.
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11/25/03 05:21 PM
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Pat,
Just saw some of these this Saturday in West St. Louis County. I was helping a ham friend, W0TT, plant some trees and there they were! I had never noticed them before.
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Re: Mystery plant
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11/26/03 06:46 AM
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Gary, HOw'd they taste?
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Re: Mystery plant
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11/26/03 07:19 AM
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Hey, I'm smarter than I look! I'd almost have to be. Hi Hi!
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Gary, I RESEMBLE that remark!
I'm rremined of the kid's verbal trick where one asks the other if he'd rather be dumber than he looks or look dumber than he is. Then no matter which is selected, he's asked,"HOW COULD YOU!"
I'm probably not as cautious about tasting things as I should be but since I could not see evidence that ANYTHING had been eating them, I refrained. They sure look good though. I heard a medical report that someone had eaten the "cute little" berries on the nice ivy plant (poison ivy) and the results weren't pretty.
At least we aren't that dumb. Well, Gary, no matter what others may say about us, I think that together we probably make a whole wit.
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How about the first guy to eat an oyster! Had to be a guy right? And how long did it take for him to convince a woman to try it?
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Gary, A real hungry man without access to fire. Same criteria for the woman or else it was an early vestige of women's lib.
Have a happy Thanksgiving and remember all those vets who made our way of life and some semblance of peace on earth possible. Consider the Imperial Japanese and Facist German alternatives before criticising the current state of the world. About the only thing good would have been Al Qaida would be doing it to the Japanese and German fascists.
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Re: Mystery plant
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Those grew everywhere when I was a kid. I never knew what they were but I knew exactly what to do with them. Break a whole limb off below the last clump of berries, grasp the base of the limb, pick your intended target (preferably someone smaller and younger than yourself) and vigorously swing the limb in their direction. Results? You end up with an empty limb and your victim gets pummeled with purple berries!
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We used to carefully pick seed pods from "Touch Me Not" flowers and throw them at others or the ground. They "EXPLODE" and shower ouit their seeds.
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Re: Mystery plant
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What about the guy who licked a frog and found out it was a good drug!! Curosity has killed a few cats too!
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Yeah but lick the wrong frog and you'll find out what the bright white light at the end of the tunnel is.
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