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spindle tree

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Koohii stories:

1) [cameron_en] 25-11-2008(35): Give the spindle tree a spin, if you can guess where it lands correctly, you'll get a prize!

2) [gavmck] 19-3-2010(3): Spindle tree or Euonymus japonicus (botanical name). Far from being "spindly", this tree is bushy and evergreen, thus making ideal hedging for those seeking privacy. So if you want to be anonymous, "Euonymus" is the correct tree to choose.

3) [ikmys] 13-6-2007(3): Spend a little time in a spindle tree and I am sure you will come up with the correct answer… eventually.

4) [Meconium] 14-2-2010(2): There's actually no such thing as the spindle tree, but it sounds like an appropriate name for a plant. Whenever young students are curious as to the name of an unusual tree, they ask their teachers. If the teacher doesn't know the correct name, the default answer they give is "…um, yeah that's a spindle tree." They usually follow it up with some difficult-to-decipher technical language, like "Yeah, the spindle tree is a dioecious evergreen monocotyledon. Native to Japan.".

5) [to_nihon] 11-1-2009(2): I always forget what a spindle tree looks like. When that happens, I have to check Wikipedia to make sure I'm looking at the correct tree.

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