Originally Posted By: Maven
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.

Last edited by themilum; 11/08/2007 12:30 AM.