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No clue, but I am amused to find that a decoction of the plant is used as a wash to make weak, lazy babies walk. (Native American Ethnobotany) So it's possible the turkey tangle is from NA roots.
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No clue, but I am amused to find that a decoction of the plant is used as a wash to make weak, lazy babies walk. (Native American Ethnobotany) So it's possible the turkey tangle is from NA roots. Must have been the Mississippi Choctaws, Maven. Their babies are known to be the laziest of all the Five Civilized Tribes.  But turkey tangle fog fruit is a corruption of the English phrasename turkey tangle frog fruit. Don't Google; think!  The diminutive turkey tangle frog fruit plant has clusters of flowers and fruits which to the imaginative eye resembles an encircling tangle of turkey feet. The wee plant grows about as high as a frog's eyelashes, hence the apt name. Thank you.
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>about as high as a frog's eyelashes I almost was buying this, until this phrase winked back.. - joe (blinkin' and nod) friday 
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[>> It is is a flowering, broadleaf plant. It grows in a groundcover or turflike manner, and is often present in yards.
The inflorescence consists of a purple-coloured centre encircled by small white-to-pink flowers. 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; fog is disputable. Sometimes seen as a corruption of the word frog, who feed on it, also maybe indicating that it grows in dry regions and depends for its water supply on fog and dew.
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Ok Chipheads, now I see it'll take a gig from Google to resonate within your straight-wired kilobit brains. turkey tangle fog fruits = 1,028 google hits
turkey tangle frog fruits = 30,123 google hitsNow. Do you have anything further to add? 
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Learn to use the power of Google. Enclosing those keywords in double quotes yields nothing. Zip. Bupkis. I'm with tsuwm of "gray chumah". Ron diddli-oh-ding-dang-ob-dong-vious.
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turkey tangle frog fruits = 30,123 google hits
furthermoreover and in the second place, the very first hit I got for the above showed me that Texas Frogfruit is another name for Turkey tangle fogfruit. - joe (Great jumpin' horny toads!) friday
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AKA capeweed. But note that loss of an R after bilabials and labio-dentals is a feature of English. Cf, "lieberry", "Febuary", "speak", "infastructure", et al. Hence, "frogfruit" > "fogfruit" would be expected.
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