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Sunday, October 23, 2011

It's a...????

Saw two or three of these on our stroll through the Arboretum last week. This one had been set on a bench in the Rose Garden. The others were also obviously not in their original locations, so I have no ide what it might grow on. Any ideas? Even ideas as to how to search for it in a search engine? Weird fruit just doesn't seem like it would turn up anything accurate in the image search.



For Odd Shots on Monday-- Using image search, I did find an answer here, but I don't know how she found it. With her identification you can read more about it on Wikipedia, or research the name further.
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9 comments:

  1. LewOctober 23, 2011 at 7:08 PM

    Odd indeed. It might be some sort of gourd. I saw some pumpkins at the Frederick fair with rough textured skin which I posted as an Odd Shots encore.

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  2. JeffOctober 23, 2011 at 8:07 PM

    Try Google's "Search by Image": http://www.google.com/insidesearch/searchbyimage.html

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  3. imacOctober 24, 2011 at 12:01 PM

    Is it some sort of Pumpkin for Halloween.

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  4. Liz HindsOctober 24, 2011 at 12:44 PM

    Uuuorrh, it looks like a brain!!

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  5. Martha ZOctober 24, 2011 at 8:27 PM

    It does remind me of a brain. I think you need to go back and ask a docent. I can't imagine how to google it.

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  6. MelissaOctober 25, 2011 at 3:38 PM

    That is very odd and interesting. Now I am going to have to google it to see where it grows normally. I wonder why it was left in those places?

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  7. MelissaOctober 25, 2011 at 3:43 PM

    here ya go, Kath.. LOL! Maybe it was set there to repel spiders! http://www.burkemuseum.org/spidermyth/myths/skineggs.html or not :-)

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  8. Hayu beautiful handicraftOctober 25, 2011 at 9:18 PM

    mmmm... it looks like a kind of fruit or something... :-)
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  9. lotusleafOctober 27, 2011 at 6:46 AM

    Hey, it looks like a breadfruit. I am reasonably sure it is a breadfruit, or its cousin.

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