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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

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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