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Old 30-09-2003, 04:12 PM
Jim Lewis
 
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Default [IBC] Ficus sap.

All Ficus (figs) have white sap.

If I remember correctly, Ficus carica, the edible fig, does

not.

Oh, but it does. I have been trying to kill one in the front
yard for 5 years and it just will NOT die. I cut it to the
ground every fall (and it bleeds white), then spray roundup on it
in the spring -- and it springs! I have built a bonfire over its
roots, and salted the ground. It still grows back!

Aaaargh!

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - "People,
when Columbus discovered this country, it was plum full of nuts
and berries. And I'm right here to tell you the berries are just
about all gone." -- Uncle Dave Macon, old-time musician

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