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Posted by 0tterbot on February 10, 2008, 5:08 pm
If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options >>lillypillies are just lovely, aren't they? (and the jam is just the
>>best!!!)
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> So easy to make: no peeling! I throw in a handful of lemon seeds to
> make it set. But developers have cut down the huge lillypilly on a
> vacant block where I have been harvesting for years, so there'll be
> no more jam till I can find another. (And my mulberry in the next
> suburb has been cut down, too!)
these people are just being thoughtless, aren't they?! ;-)
>>is there a lillypilly that's not prone to infestation by bats? <g>
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> I was not aware that bats have a taste for lillypilly apples. (I call
> them apples because that's exactly what they taste like.) I have
> pondered aloud here previously how it seems strange for there to be
> no native bird, animal or bug that eats lillypilly fruit.
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> If you want a bat-free lillypilly, plant only the male tree. <;->
heh.
one place we lived, the bat infestation when it was fruiting was positively
alarming. (not to mention exceedingly noisy, and poo-covered.)
it perhaps only happens if there is nothing better nearby? - i don't know.
but it does happen!!
kylie
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