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Hi Bev & everyone,

It's Sage...I helped you ID the Bear's Foot flowers (Do 
you have any seeds yet?). I agree with the others, it 
sounds like a persimmon. What do it's leaves look like? 
The one we have here with fruits as you describe have 
small oval leaves 1/4" to under an inch in length. Ours 
are small trees about 6 to 8 feet tall and very smooth 
bark.

Here in the Texas hill country we've been experiencing the 
wettest summer on record, and I haven't posted in a while 
because we've gone through four floods...we're just trying 
to do damage control on the homestead. Everything in the 
garden is ripening late, and our melons are really small 
too. Although we've had plenty of bees, I haven't seen one 
bumble bee this year, and it seems like the melons are 
suffering from lack of pollination--lots of flowers, 
little produce. Tomatoes are just starting to ripen, and 
we'll start canning tonight.

--Sage
Way out in Texas


On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:15:59 -0400
 EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:
> I think I asked this once before, but CRS has striken, 
> so here we go again..
> I have several trees on my property that have a fruit 
> that is the color 
> of a blueberry, but the size and shape of a persimmon. 
> This grows in 
> the woods alongside the hickories, oaks, and sweetgums. 
> It must fruit 
> in late June, as I am finding the semi-dried fruits on 
> the ground now. 
> Each fruit has multiple seeds, like a persimmon, but 
> this is not a 
> persimmon tree.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> --
> Bevanron of EarthNSky Farm   Sleep well tonight, for 
> somewhere in the 
> ocean's depths, MY son is protecting YOUR freedom.
>
>
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