Boulder Sunday with a Hedge Apple

sketch.and.jam (70)in #bouldersunday • 5 years ago (edited)

Here's a nice cilica boulder I found for this #bouldersunday by @shasta

From a distance it looked like just a normal gray stone.

On closer examination it had tons of tiny flecs of cilica shining in it. Too bad the camera nurfed the reflection :-(.

This boulder seems to be claimed by either a chipmunk or a squirrel for peeling apart acorns.

Nearby I found some eyelash cup fungi.

Then just a bit farther away I found a hedge apple next to a branch full of false turkeytail. Hedge apples are an interesting fruit that have been used for strange things. Some people believe they repel spiders so they put them around their house, but I suspect this is a wives tale of sorts, probably gnats will most likely hatch out of them. The Amish also believe you can treat cancer with these but no real studies have proven if it is effective. I took a nibble of it and it was bitter as heck. Supposedly the seeds taste good though. Sorry for the hedge apple rant, happy #bouldersunday :-).

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5 years ago in #bouldersunday by sketch.and.jam (70)

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