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Old 23-07-2004, 04:05 PM
Kay
 
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Default Calling all olive or plum experts!

In article , Phil L
writes

and plums, along with nectarines and peaches, olives and mangoes are all
part of the same family : Prunus, so you could say that they are indeed
related...see this page for more details:
http://www.fact-index.com/d/dr/drupe.html

Ahem!!!

1) Prunus is not a family. It is a genus within the rose family Rosaceae

2) Olives are in a different family altogether - Oleaceae

3) and mangoes are in yet a third family

So you could say they were all related .... but about as closely as they
are to cacti, dandelions and carrots ;-)

Although I'm not an expert in anything :-p


I couldn't possibly comment ;-)

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Kay
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