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My palm tree managed to live through another winter, and now it is busy mutating into something that always seems to scare the neighbours.
It develops some kind of fast-growing seed pod thingys every other year or so.
These photos show how the tree changed from the end of April until today. The seed pods will fall off in about a week, and then the tree will go back to looking like itself again, like the whole, terrible thing never happened.
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Location: northern germany | run!
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I said the same thing!
Augh!
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Location: Parts Unknown | Bring the lady flowers, and this is how she reacts ?
Wassamatta you ?
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Location: Hay Lakes, Alberta, Canada | HAHAHAHAA!
If we had those here, people would be shooting at it! |
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Location: Ontario, Canada | Anybody know what the intrinsic food value of Desotos would be?
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Walter passed away on Jul 29, 2014. We will miss you, Walt!
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Location: Heaven Above (Formerly Oklahoma City,OK) | Not very much, Greg. Of Course, if you contribute some animal or vegetable material to the Desoto, things might change!
Ask Doc, as he appears to know a little bit about DeSotos. |
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I hear that DeSotos are high in minerals...yuk, yuk, yuk...
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Location: cornpatch county, Southwest IOA | FIN ME - 2014-05-12 4:45 PM
I hear that DeSotos are high in minerals...yuk, yuk, yuk...
:cool: Yes, high in iron oxide..........................MO |
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Location: North Australia | On a quiet day you can hear those old Desoto's rusting!
Here in tropical north Australia, palm trees are very common, and this type of thing is everywhere. Normal protocol is to take to ém with the Machete or better still, chainsaw.
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Location: Ontario, Canada | Minerals for sure and lots of calories in all the rubber stuff. The tree looks primitive enough to thrive on the 57 isocyanate foam under the dash pad!! I wouldn't park too close to it!
I showed your pics to my wife. She thought it looked gorgeous!! Better sleep with one eye open, huh?
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"PALM Tree", you say?
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Be afraid...be very afraid...
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Location: Parts Unknown | Makes me think of this old Kliban sketch:
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Location: Ocala, Florida | You mean people want palm trees!?!? Where I live we cant keep them away nuisance.. |
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Location: Parts Unknown | The Aussies say the same thing about kangaroos and birds that Americans pay $1000 for
to keep as exotic pets.
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