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From: ajleeb <>
Subject: Re: [DVHH] Knees in Banat
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 21:11:07 -0600
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Eve.

The correct (German) word is Akazie, the Schwowisch dialect would've been
"Ak-aza-paam (there are many different dialects).

Alex.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eve" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 8:13 PM
Subject: Re: [DVHH] Knees in Banat


> When we first moved into this house (27 years ago), my parents came out
> and
> planted "I Got Z" trees. That's what my husband was calling them
> everytime
> he mowed and got picked by the thorns on them - it is very close to how my
> parents pronounced it. I believe we are talking about the same thing - we
> only recently found out they are locust trees. We had one that the root
> system was actually threatening our above ground pool - and plugging up
> the
> septic bed, etc. We finally got all the roots from it killed off.
> Unfortunately after cutting it down we lost the the beauty of it beside
> our
> front porch and the shade it gave. My husband doesn't miss the thorns
> (still 2 of them in the back 40) or the mess it made in the gutters and
> everywhere else.
>
> Eve
>
>
> On 5/24/07, Rose Mary K Hughes <> wrote:
>>
>> Jody,
>> We had locust trees at our summer place and my aunt (born in Semlak) got
>> all excited when she saw the Spring flowers on them. She said that they
>> were like the Acacia trees in Semlak and that the bees made such
>> wonderful
>> honey from them. Decided to look it up on google and sure enough--Acacia
>> are Locust.
>>
>> Robinia pseudoacacia
>> (Acacia, Acacia Blanc, Black Locust, Common Locust, False Acacia,
>> Robinier, White Locust, Yellow False Acacia, Yellow Locust)
>>
>> Just do a google on Locust Acacia and several sites will come up. :)
>>
>> Rose Mary
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Mercydorf
>> To: ajleeb ; DVHH-L
>> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 10:54 AM
>> Subject: [DVHH] Knees in Banat
>>
>>
>> Alex,
>> I just noticed the link in your last email to the Knees site in German
>> www.knees-im-banat.de
>> - Is this a new site?
>> On their homepage, what is that white looking flowering tree or
>> shrub? I would hate to get back on plants, but being a garden lover, I
>> wondered if this is the Elderberry tree we have talked about in the past.
>>
>> Jody
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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