Monday, May 23, 2011

The Mayapple!

This is Jubilee as she's walking through our patch of "umbrella plants" that are quickly being inundated with weeds.  I've found out that what we're calling "umbrella plants" are really the "mayapples" (or Podophyllum peltatum).  It is supposed to produce a fruit, or apple, in the summer.

Other names are: hogapple, Indian apple, mayflower, umbrella plant (shape of the leaves), wild lemon (flavor of the fruit), wild mandrake, American mandrake (shape of rhizomes) or "devil's apple".

And lo and behold, just where I thought I left it 6 days ago, Jubilee's leash appeared today!  I wonder why I couldn't find it last week?  Now I have 2 leashes.

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