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kolanuraven
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We've got some of the same stuff. I can't remember the name but I'll see if Mom knows, she's into the plants and correct name thing!
If it's the same thing...ours can get almost tree like if left alone! I think it's called " something or the other" lime.
If it's the same thing...ours can get almost tree like if left alone! I think it's called " something or the other" lime.
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I have several on the place. They make a citrus type fruit. I know a fellow that uses the fruit as his secret spice in cooking. My wife knows what it is...I'll ask her when I get past her voice mail!
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Ok...your ' weed' is key lime.
It will get loose and get ' wild' on you very easily. Used as a hedge border also. I remember we used it as a hedge fence in one part of a pasture I used to lease yrs ago!
Mom says the limes make great pies!
It will get loose and get ' wild' on you very easily. Used as a hedge border also. I remember we used it as a hedge fence in one part of a pasture I used to lease yrs ago!
Mom says the limes make great pies!
Canadian_Cowgirl
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Mom's best guess is that this is an Osage Orange. They grow in the Midwest and other places, and are used as hedges, etc. They have a fairly large spiny looking fruit that is not usually eaten.
She says that a true key lime only grows in the most southerly regions, and since she was born and raised in Florida, she has seen a few. The one in their backyard never grew taller than 8 feet, but it also DID NOT spread. It had ping pong ball size fruits that turned light greenish-yellow when ripe. They also smell like lime. It is quite sensitive to frost and freezing weather, where the Osage orange would not be. The other possibility is sour orange......
Little Bo Peep
She says that a true key lime only grows in the most southerly regions, and since she was born and raised in Florida, she has seen a few. The one in their backyard never grew taller than 8 feet, but it also DID NOT spread. It had ping pong ball size fruits that turned light greenish-yellow when ripe. They also smell like lime. It is quite sensitive to frost and freezing weather, where the Osage orange would not be. The other possibility is sour orange......
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Not Osage Orange.. we have hundreds of them on the place.. nothing like that at all, that is too herbaceus.. Darn things are heck on car, tractor, Quad ties and the human foot.. But the cows do eat the hedge apples (Which also will keep bugs out of your basement)..
As far as if it is sour Orange or anything else.... Couldn't tell ya,
As far as if it is sour Orange or anything else.... Couldn't tell ya,
kolanuraven
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Alabama is a southern region there Bo Peep! :wink: :wink: :wink:
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alabama said:
Hey'Bama, have you smoked any of it yet. Might be the stuff that saves the ranch, for you. :shock: A distant cousin of the "wild wood weed".
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Jinglebob
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alabama said:
Have a good friend handy, just in case it's poisinous. :shock:
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kolanuraven
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If you really want a recipe for key lime pie I can get Mom's for you.
Canadian_Cowgirl
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I still dont think they are key limes because key limes dont spread they are a small tree, they dont have huge thorns and they only grow in Mexico, And Southern Florida, they dont even grew in north Florida... What does the fruit look like and what does it smell like??
Little Bo peep
Thats a picture of a key lime
Little Bo peep
Thats a picture of a key lime
Since I know nothing about how Key limes grow it amuses me your calling it a weed,I thought they were planted and harvested for thier fruit :???:
Anyway alabama...my sons fav pie is key lime and I just improvice a lemon pie reciepe,works the same...love the tang of the key lime.
Anyway alabama...my sons fav pie is key lime and I just improvice a lemon pie reciepe,works the same...love the tang of the key lime.
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"Native" key limes are much smaller in size than what you see in the stores.
It's a weird kinda plant...not really a tree, kinda woody but doesn't have a ' main' trunk.
They are somewhat flexiable and the thorns OUCH!!!!
It's warm enough here in GA,& AL for them grow and thrive. I thought all of Mom's had been bushogged...but she says she's still got several that she saved from Daddy and the tractor!!!
They do grow in the " keys" , thus the name!
It's a weird kinda plant...not really a tree, kinda woody but doesn't have a ' main' trunk.
They are somewhat flexiable and the thorns OUCH!!!!
It's warm enough here in GA,& AL for them grow and thrive. I thought all of Mom's had been bushogged...but she says she's still got several that she saved from Daddy and the tractor!!!
They do grow in the " keys" , thus the name!
RobertMac
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Here you go, 'Bama
http://www.gourmetsleuth.com/recipe_keylimepie.htm
http://www.gourmetsleuth.com/recipe_keylimepie.htm
