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["Brant & Susan Mauthe" <pbslabel@airmail.net>]

I had some Butia fruit last fall (from a business convention in Las Vegas).
It smelled heavenly.  Tasted ho hum in my opinion.  And yes, I have one of
these plants growing here at home now (Dallas, Tx - zone 8).

----- Original Message -----
From: lostman_amiga <lostman_amiga@yahoo.com>
To: <nafex@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 1:08 PM
Subject: [nafex] Re: Off Topic Vegetables


> Now that you have started on this kind of thread, there is another
> variation of this I would like ask about.
>
> How about other edible parts of fruit trees?
>
> Does anyone use persimmon leaves as a tea?  How does that taste?
> I know a curtain type of citrus tree leaves is used for Thai cooking
> (like a bayleaf).  Has anyone tried the other varieties of citrus
> leaves or flowers.  Is there differance?
>
> Here is a kind of fruit tree that is not talked about much. Palm
> trees!  There are some that produce tasty edible fruit (besides the
> Coconut), and some are pretty cold hardy.  Has anyone tried fruit off
> the Butia or Jubea palms?
>
> ....ok, I am sorry, I have'nt had much sleep in the last few days.
>  I will shutup now. :)
>
> --- In nafex@y..., Don Yellman <dyellman@e...> wrote:
> > Ginda:
> >
> > We all grow tomatoes and such things.  The worst that could happen
> to
> > you is a whipping with limp asparagus.  You want some real
> off-topic?  I
> > got the living dickens stung out of me today installing three new
> bee
> > colonies.  Should have put on the bee suit.
> >
> > Rgs, Don Yellman, Great Falls, VA, where we are watching for the
> asparagus.
>
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