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- From: mnb@voodoo.boeing.com (Mike Burr)
- Newsgroups: rec.gardens
- Subject: Re: Horrible Plants
- Message-ID: <3331@voodoo.UUCP>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 18:27:56 GMT
- References: <1992Nov13.210345.18149@cbfsb.cb.att.com> <1992Nov13.233945.20647@ncar.ucar.edu>
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- Organization: Boeing Graphics project, Bellevue WA
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- >In article <1992Nov13.210345.18149@cbfsb.cb.att.com>, djd@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (david.j.daulton) writes:
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- > [Interestingly horrible plants]
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- >> Can anyone add to my list?
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- While visiting Thomas Edison's winter home in Florida I saw an interesting
- one. Edison was an avid amature botanist and had his own botanical gardens.
- He had a couple of specimens called Dynamite Trees. The looked like small
- Palm trees. They had seed pods which were about as big as large coconuts
- and covered with mean looking spikes. According to our tour guide, as
- the pods ripen they build up pressure and explode with enough force to
- be dangerous to people near by. They remove the pods before they have
- a chance to ripen now.
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- Michael Burr Boeing Computer Services, Bellevue WA
- Email:mnb@voodoo.ca.boeing.com
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