DF> Check out what Marilyn Boissoneault wrote on 10 Dec 97  10:36:29:
 Marilyn> Yes your messages are getting out. I'm afraid I just don't
 Marilyn> know anything about knobby trees.  
 DF> Thanks Marilyn...but the problem is that I have never seen one
 DF> around here before nor heard of it. The "parent tree" is in southern
 DF> Calif. and I live in northern Calif. a big difference in climate and
 DF> all. As for the nurseries around here...well..I think that they would
 DF> look at me as if I were insane..(BG) 
Debi:
Hmmmmm. Is this a deciduous tree? If not perhaps it is a shore pine. They
get knobs on them. At least they do up here on the Oregon Coast. But then
considering our screwy weather anything can happen.
Maybe it's a bad case of acne in which case a dermatologist should be
called in. 
Regards,
Bert
 
P.S. I have been following this thread with interest and anxiously await a
reasonable response from some knowledgeable person who can accurately
identify this mystery of nature.
As I am about to loose the only BBS carrying this Message Area to the
ravages of the Internet, hope an answer will be forthcoming.
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