[Magdalen] Plant for Dr. Strang

[Sibyl Smirl]

You can use Google on the "image" setting, put in a name, either Latin 
or common, of the plant you suspect, and get many, many images of that 
plant in all its stages of growth, enough that you can surely find at 
least one that will verify whether this is the one you suspect.

You can also drag a photo into Google, and try to match it with a 
published one that will then give you a name when you get to a site 
where it is.



On 2/22/16 10:17 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
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>
> In a message dated 2/22/2016 9:37:30 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> jocraddock at gmail.com writes:
>
> But, I  have no clue as to the plant.>>>>>>>
>
>
> Well, I really don't know, either.  I'm much better with trees  than
> with shrubs.
>
> Since the fruit appears to be a drupe, I might hazard a guess that
> you are dealing with Sassafras albidum, the common sassafras tree
> that grows in much of the eastern half of the USA.  Those fruits
> eventually turn a red-blue, and are picked off by birds, etc. for
> dispersal.
>
> I think we had a discussion on this list some years ago about the
> merits of sassafras honey.
>
>
> David Strang.
>
>


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