Bed of nails plant

Couldn't find a thing on this plant in plant files or on a search off internet.
Anybody have info on this plant?
Thanks

Finally found some good info worth reading.
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/naranjilla_ars.html

Pretty interesting plant, Tropicman.

Did you get seeds of them and are considering growing some?

Friend got some seeds and germinated them,and gave me a seedling,thought I'd better see how to grow them,hoping this fruit is more tasty than the passion fruit!

Thanks. I'll be watching this thread for updates!

Have fun growing it!

Shoe.

Hope you'll excuse me for asking a stupid question: If someone were to collect seed from a spiny form of Naranjilla growing in the wild, and then plant those seeds in a highly cultivated environment, would the plants be spineless?

Probably not - but imagining the jekyll-hyde possibilities here is kinda fun - imagine feeding a domestic pig on nothing but the (mythically) transmogrifying naranjilla and then letting him loose in the wild - wut a pair of tusks he'd sprout!

Apologies to those not sharing my brand of humor.
Karen

LOL!!!
Well turkey and cranberries go together.
I guess pork and jam don't sound bad either!!!!

Let's go see what the Recipe Forum as to offer: http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/564374/

Wow,all that sounds good,and now its bedtime,always get hungry before bedtime!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tropic and Shoe, I know you two have both put Naranjilla + Seed in the search box of www.google.net but anyone reading this should try it if they haven't done so yet.

This is a time of year for many of us when fantasies of tropical mysteries are especially appealing - googling the above will result in at least one source of unusual tropical seed.

Thank you for starting this thread.

This message was edited Dec 29, 2005 3:00 PM

Lots of good pics here!
http://images.google.com/images?q=Naranjilla&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images

Nice looking fruit, eh? And if you scroll down about halfway, on the left you can see where the spines on the leaves grow...right down the center vein. Looks like something from Mars, eh?

I guess the closest I have come across to a "Garden from Mars" was E. A. Bowles' corner of his garden he called his "Lunatic Asylum", which is where I first encountered Harry's Walking Stick - the contorted hazel. Like the Naranjilla, it resists disease better when grafted onto rootstock from another, but closely related, plant.

Will root about a few tomes with my erudite tusks and be back later.

Now, what would you two grow with the Naranjilla for a Garden from Mars? I would definitely include something with a stunning flower like the nightblooming cereus...

Just got a crocodyllus fern,leaves look like skin of a alligator!!!!

What part of the world is that from? Can you post a pic?

Have always been fascinated by how life forms from different parts of the plant and animal kingdoms can mimic each other - crocodile skin on a fern? hmmm At Longwood Gardens, decades ago, will never forget walking into a tropical section of their greenhouses featuring bromeliads - one of them had a flower that looked exactly like a daffodil. Gives new meaning to the verb "morph".

Check it out.
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/381792/

By the way, I added that common name to the existing entry for Solanum quitoense (syn. Solanum angulatum) in PlantFiles: http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/57815/index.html - and there are also two plant sources listed for this species ;o)

Leonitus leonurus...Lion's Ear. When in full bloom and at full height, definitely has an Outer Space origin! :>)

You know, looking up close at the crocodyllus fern and Bed of Nails plants, I kinda expect to see one of my missionary forebears huffing among the forests of bristling "spear points" with a pair of Shoe's lion ears bobbing up and down in his wake.

Well, actually, my great grandfather concentrated on his neighbors in North Carolina and didn't make it to South America.

But - plants from Mars. Did you know scientists are working on modifying earth plants so they can live in outer space? http://www.spacedaily.com/news/life-05zzzzzzzb.html How'd ja like a little Pyrococcus furiosus in your mesclun?

Well, the possibility of microbes deep under the surface of Mars that may unlock mysteries about life on Mars in ancient times is supremely tantalizing. Just hope we keep our Pyrococcus furiosuses outa there.

I seen a little about this microbe on the aninnal channel,on a episode called most extreme aninnals.
Kinda of spooky hearing what scientist are up too these days!!!

Yes...very spooky! And, in the same vein as what bluespiral said above, it reminds me of the time I was chased by the dreaded and horrible
Streptococcus pyogenes naegl. I'll never forget THAT day! (I rank it right up there with the time I was chased by the Famous Footless Pig of Transylvania County.) As some say, one hand watches the other...well, lemme tell you this, One foot chases another. Very spooky!

I'm here to tell ya folks, them space experiments are sumpin' else. But don't get me started. Just beware!

Shoeless and Clueless. ô¿ô

And where sending a spacecraft off to the planet Pluto!!!!!!!!!!
The technology these scientist have,that is kept from the public, you and me,maybe it's better not to know what is going on behind the doors of the future,I just hope it's for the best of mankind,but I'm all for plants that will beautify the earth!

Tropicman, I'm wit you - am very big on scenery and landscapes, and if 'Shoe is gonna get hisself chased by such fascinating apparitions as footless pigs and crazed streptococci, then the background setting better be at least as interesting as the chase.

I wonder what you did to aggravate them, Shoe??? Did your Martian lithops ("living stones") collection get into the pig feed? Evidently, baby lithops burgeon from within the "parent" lithop, and sort of burst out like Hulk did on that long ago tv show. Now, imagine sumpin like dat gettin into the pig feed! What a burp - the belch heard around the globe, I spect. Not a very happy pig at all.

lithops: http://www.lithops.net/lithop7.htm

Speaking of unusual plants, would you two like to hustle over to Momcat's Flower Round Robin and join before she closes sometime this weekend? I'm herding DGers I know to have unusual tastes in the plant kingdom over there -

http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/567700/