Could it be this? http://images.google.com/images?q=Maclura+pomifera&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org... "The fruit of the Osage orange tree (Maclura pomifera). These things weigh half a kilo and some people use them as insect repellants. Known as Osage oranges, brain fruit, hedge apples and hedge balls." --Joshua Zucker On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 7:52 PM, Simon Plouffe <simon.plouffe@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello, as you may know, most of the plants, fruits, etc do have a growing pattern when they grow,
there are 3 sections in a banana, 5 sections in an apple, pineapple do have 5 and 8 spirals, daisies have 21 petals (most of the time), this is not knew material at all.
But here is one that I have found in Nantes, it is a tree in a park, just beside a street.
When I saw these <fruits> the first time, I thought these were tennis balls in a fluorescent green color.
Not at all : these things grows on a tree :
http://www.lacim.uqam.ca:16080/~plouffe/fruit/
They do NOT have any growing pattern at all.
Does anyone has any idea what tree and fruit this could be ?? I asked many peoples and nobody came with an answer, I went to see wikipedia for exotic fruits as well without success.
Simon Plouffe
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