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    Can anyone identify this for me?

    Any idea what this is? It is growing beside one of our Ash trees, and there is another in the hedgerow. I don't recognise the fruit and I can't fint it in any of my books.

    Cutting into the fruit, which has four distinct lobes, each lobe contains a pip/seed with a bright orange skin, inside which is a white nut(?) which has a bright green centre when cut open.

    I think I shall play safe and not eat it ...
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    Spindle tree
    Euonymus europaeus

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    • #3
      Go with Paul on that one. No idea what uses, but there are probably some recipes if you go to the old books. Birds do love the seeds/fruits.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by rustylady View Post
        Go with Paul on that one. No idea what uses, but there are probably some recipes if you go to the old books. Birds do love the seeds/fruits.
        Thanks, guys. I wonder if it will go with limoncello (hic)

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        • #5
          Anybody ever noticed how scarey55 and scared55 are never on this site at the same time.... Could it be....
          Blogging at..... www.thecynicalgardener.wordpress.com

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          • #6
            Spindle Tree - because the waxy interior of the seed case was used to wax the spindles for spinning (distaff and Spindle)

            Hows that for useless information?
            Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

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            • #7
              Originally posted by seasprout View Post
              Anybody ever noticed how scarey55 and scared55 are never on this site at the same time.... Could it be....
              ...they only have one PC and take turns
              I you'st to have a handle on the world .. but it BROKE!!

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              • #8
                Spindle tree...

                http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?im...%3Den%26sa%3DG

                ( don't think it will go with lemoncello!!!)
                Last edited by Nicos; 09-09-2007, 10:09 PM.
                "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

                Location....Normandy France

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by roitelet View Post
                  Spindle Tree - because the waxy interior of the seed case was used to wax the spindles for spinning (distaff and Spindle)

                  Hows that for useless information?
                  I think that's a 'no' for eating then, Scarey55!

                  Originally posted by seasprout View Post
                  Anybody ever noticed how scarey55 and scared55 are never on this site at the same time.... Could it be....
                  Sorry, Seasprout, unless he/she can do simultaneous talking too, they are, in fact, two quite proper and distinct peeps!

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Hazel at the Hill View Post
                    Sorry, Seasprout, unless he/she can do simultaneous talking too, they are, in fact, two quite proper and distinct peeps!
                    You've been peeking haven't you Hazel
                    A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot! (Thomas Edward Brown)

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by roitelet View Post
                      Spindle Tree - because the waxy interior of the seed case was used to wax the spindles for spinning (distaff and Spindle)

                      Hows that for useless information?
                      Pretty useful, I'd say - thanks roitelet
                      A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot! (Thomas Edward Brown)

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by scarey55 View Post
                        You've been peeking haven't you Hazel
                        Hmph - not yet, Clare.....!

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Hazel at the Hill View Post
                          Hmph - not yet, Clare.....!
                          What you need is a working model of a webcam

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