25-04-2007, 10:59 AM
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Unknown Veg
In message .com, Dave
Hill writes
This year I bought a Veg from a market stall in Malta, it is in the
marrow family. I think a friend called it the 100 year fruit? but I
wont swear to this.
The stall I bought it of spoke no English, and the Maltese name name
for it just went in one ear and out the other..
http://www.twango.com/channel/Taffy4u2.Unknown
When I bought it it had young shoots growing from the stalk end.
The fruit is very dense and a heavily pitted surface.
Also on site it a pic of a pink flower. These were bought as seed of a
supposed Solanium, it is not, the plants have been inside a cold poly
tunnel and they died back to the ground for the winter,
Any ideas?
Try Phytolacca (pokewood).
David Hill
Abacus Nurseries
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Stewart Robert Hinsley
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