RE: [DL] Interesting note about a tumbleweed

[Allan Seyberth <darious@darious.com>]

At 05:16 PM 8/1/2001 -0400, you wrote:
 >Iffy.  They aren't soft, but they aren't that massive, either.  Think of a
 >pricker bush rolled up into a ball, and you've got the right idea.  Most
 >likely this guy ran into a Tumbleweed (Russian Thistle) with something extra
 >in it.  I don't know how it managed to break this guy's windshield--they're
 >designed to be light enough to be blown by a fairly minor wind  I would have
 >been careful because the d*mn things get caught in chains and do evil things
 >to everything that the chain touches.
 >
 >Because they're dead before they start tp tumble, however, they make great
 >desert fire lighters.

The stem.

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