[TheForge] Re: spikes

[Tod Estes]

Jimson weed AKA thornapple the ones that I have seen the spiny pods are like an
oval. Pesky weed grows In Oklahoma well. Cleaned out many of those from stalls
and in the pastures.
Quoting Mike Spencer <mspencer at tallships.ca>:

>
> me> ...weld them to each other, points outward and axes radial to the
> me> core shape-guide, to eventually form a 4' diameter prickly seed
> me> pod (or spore, or armored Killer Tomato or...)...
>
> Lee> would that be a thorn apple?
>
> Yeah, like that, although I was more thinking of  Ernst Haeckel's
> drawings of radiolaria.
>
> My father told me about encountering Jimpson weed in Texas but,
> although it's said to grow in the east, I've never seen it.  Hadda
> google up a pic of the pod.  The railroad spike ball would probably be
> more, well, prickly, unless you made a spherical sheet metal shell
> instead of just a temporary form.
>
> - Mike
>
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Tod Estes

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