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  • From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Plant ID
  • Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:06:00 -0700 (PDT)

It sure sounds like mistletoe berries to me; but, I haven't seen them in so
long (on trees), I don't remeber variations of surface texture ...bobford


--- On Thu, 10/16/08, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:

> From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
> Subject: [Homestead] Plant ID
> To: "Homestead List" <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Thursday, October 16, 2008, 3:00 PM
> I was looking at acorns today, under a huge white oak tree,
> when I
> noticed some red 'berries' on the ground. They
> have a rough surface,
> not smooth, and are uniformly 1/4" in diameter. They
> look somewhat like
> this red bayberry:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/zeping/150247200/
> But obviously not the bayberry. Inside of this
> 'berry' the flesh is hard
> and peach colored.
>
> I looked at other large white oaks and they, too, seem to
> be dropping
> these 'berries'. It is only the white oaks, not
> the red or black ones.
> All neighboring are identified and accounted for: eastern
> hornbean,
> sugar maples, sweetgum(lots of them), hickories, and other
> oaks...
>
> I have no idea of what this is or where it came from. My
> first thought
> was that it is some weird type of mistletoe berry. I've
> always seen the
> white, smooth, shiny berries,is this a precursor? I
> can't see any
> mistletoe in the tree, but then, I am very nearsighted, the
> trees are
> huge, and the oaks still have their own leaves. Are there
> multiple
> types of mistletoe? How have I missed something this
> obvious all these
> years?
>
> Bev
>
> --
> "The nine most terrifying words in the English
> language are: 'I'm from
> the government and I'm here to help.'" Ronald
> Reagan
>
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