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No no no no, dalehileman, you are only through plowing when the horse is in the barn. Me amd my good buddy Faldage are still fighting tooth and nail to right the misconceptions of a consortium of new age googlegogglers who fog rather than frog. Listen BranShea: No don't listen; look! Look at Faldage's pictures. See the turkey foot blossons encircling the fruit? Listen tsuwm: As you know it matters little whether fog preceeded frog in a contest to determine context. Useage useage useage is King by a vote of 30 to 1. And please answer this rhetorical question, zmjezhd: Do you really think that the folksy people who saw this plant as a turkey tangle could not see frog fruit? O'boy o'boy this is great. Me and the Faldage together again. Horatio and Horatio at the bridge. Sonny and Cher reunited. Arms interlocked akimbo; standing firm in truth and the American Way with lap dogs nipping at our heels. 
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Do you really think that the folksy people who saw this plant as a turkey tangle could not see a frog fruit?
Only if the vox populi meant by Turkey, a country in Anatolia, by tangle, a Norwegian seaweed, by frog, a bit of braid, and by fruit, a flying fox.
Ye gods and little gnats! Two years before the lexicon, and still maypoling thy salted vaults. Do not pass go, do not collect an hundred semolians, do not splice commata, &c., &c.
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> Useage useage useage is King by a vote of 30 to 1. and you totally blew off z's comment that your Google results prove absolutely nothing, as without quotes, you get *every page that has the word turkey AND tangle AND frog AND fruit. for example, here is a "match" from page 10 of the results: It moved deliberatly through the tangle of wet leaves and twigs beside the trail, .... and occasionally a small branch or fruit would plummet to the ground. the words 'turkey' and 'frog' are also widely interspersed on this page: http://www.birdguy.net/reports/costa_rica05.5.htmlfor the record, "turkey tangle frog fruit" gets 7 gh "turkey tangle fog fruit" gets 5 gh 7 to 5 - joe (golly this is fun) friday
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Turkey, (a country in anatolia) was the gate way port from the exotic east to europe, of all things new, strange and wonderful
a new fowl? it must be from Turkey.. a turkey fowl.
(of course, those in the americas quickly got used to these new fowl, but called them turkey's anyway!)
and as for the fun name, the more i learn to look at flower and plants, the more sense their name have for me!
(but then, again, i LOVE Edward Lear's non-sense botany.. and force friends and relatives to look upon his wonderful plants --
he was a naturalist, and earned his income drawing illustrations for nature books.. but sometimes, it easy to believe some of his botany could be real..) in a world were there is turkey tangle frog fruits, anything is possible!
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See the turkey foot blossoms encircling it?  ---------- turkey feetYes, yes..you are right about the petals Milo, but this lap dog knows the All Way turkeys go. That's why I never saw their feet. Must admit I did not miss them much when dinner was served.
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turkey feetI s'pose the thing to do is look at pictures (warning drilling down involved) of the other species of fogfruits (genus Phyla, formerly known as Lippia), and see what sort of animal parts one sees in their flowers. Another common names for Phyla nodiflora (aka turkey tangle fogfruit) is matchweed. (Keep those kitchen matches 'way from those turkey fowls.) I took the turkey tangle part of the name to mean that turkeys (the bird, not the exotic oriental country) had difficulty walking in the stuff, but that just may be the old farm boy linguist in me. P. nodiflora is the kind of weed that grows close to the ground (according to the site linked to above, after 20 years of growth it reaches a height of 0.2 inches). Carpet comes to mind. Perhaps it's a Turkish rug.
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Here we have some matching data.(see post page one)
The flower takes on a match-like look, which is why the plant is called matchweed.
Others say the name comes from turkeys on the run being tackled due to its ground covering entangling manner of growth;
But the resemblance between the schematized feet and the flower petals are convincing.
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...but then again, I LOVE Edward Lear's non-sense botany and force my friends and relatives to look upon his wonderful plants. He was a naturalist, and earned his income drawing illustrations for nature books, but sometimes, it's easy to believe some of his botany could be real. In a world where there is turkey tangle frog fruits, anything is possible!
Thank you, Helen. Your amazing knowledge and keen insight is always a much welcomed addition to any Awad discussion. New York is the greatest!
But the resemblance between the schematized feet and the flower petals are convincing.
What eyes! How rare a woman whose prerogative is only reality and truth. Old New York was once New Amsterdam so maybe you and of troy are cousins! Thank you for your observations. You're the tops! See Faldo, I told you that we could catch more flies with honey than we could with sticks. The lovely Misses BranShea and the lovely Misses of troy are now safely in our camp and goodbuddy tsuwm (who is probably reading this personal communique as we speak) is too intellegent and goodlooking not to climb aboard our bandwagon forthwith.
That dern zmjezhd is the problem. He doesn't think that a redneck from Alabama knows how to quotation qoogle. Ha! The time is now for his up and commence. Watch! Hey zmjezhd! "frog fruits"=17,823 google hits "fog fruits" = 713 google hits __________________________________  Ha!
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NY IS THE GREATEST? Milo, are you flirting with me? those words go beyond a bit of honey!
Careful boy, Honey turns into ... well should i get out my hip boots? it seems its getting a bit deep round here!
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"frog fruits"=17,823 google hits
"fog fruits" = 713 google hits
And, Milo:
frogfruit = 2,140 ghits
frogfruits = 6 ghits
fogfruit = 3,670 ghits
fogfruits = 355 ghits
Ya think?
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