Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 15:18:28 -0500
From: thaughey <thaughey at acnet.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Well of Miriam
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

A cactus under any other name would drip as sweet.  Succulants exist on
just about everywhere but under the ice caps.  --Tom Haughey

Eric Jablow wrote:

>On Aug 3, 2005, at 4:04 PM, dicconf wrote:
>
>>Cactus is a new world plant, however.  I remember Willy Ley being
>>thankful
>>that, when a Sicilian sat down on a cactus, he didn't know where it
>>originally came from.
>>
>>-- Dick Eney
>>
>
>Really?  Native Israelis are called sabras, named after a desert
>cactus.  Was that cactus imported from the Americas?  Or is that plant
>not actually a cactus?
>
>Respectfully,
>Eric Jablow
>