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Michael Morris favorite flower: The Maypop The sight of "the prettiest and most complex flower" he'd ever seen, on Fern Valley Road, Jefferson County, KY, reminded Mike Morris of other Maypops on Jones Chapel Road in Adair County, KY. Click on headline for complete story with Maypop photos By Ed Waggener Michael Morris called from Okalona recently to give strict instructions to head for Jones Chapel Ridge in time to catch the Maypop season. He had just been riding his bike on Fern Valley Road and had spotted the exotic flower blooming along the the roadside and remembered often seeing others in a fencerow on Jones Chapel Road. "It's the prettiest and most complex flower I've ever seen," he said. He said that he'd learned from Evelyn Loy Dillingham, the wife of his close lifelong friend, Bobby Dillingham, that the Maypop fruit is a delicacy, and that she used to hunt them along the countryside around the Promised Land near Yellowhammer School in the suburbs of Fairplay, KY. He explained that Maypops are also know as Passion Flower. That name for the flower prompted the memory of the passion of one girl rancher in Greater Bliss, who fights the plant the way my father battled honeysuckle and the way Mike's father had searched out and annihilated otherwise innocent daisies. Mike and I have since learned to let well enough alone and just co-exist with sworn enemies of our fathers, but the girl rancher -- we call no names but she goes by Vicky Browning Pike -- comes to mind, she despises the plant, because she said their fruit pods make a loud popping noise when she runs over them while joy riding on her tractor, and it frightens her expensive Black Angus and one Charolais cattle. But googling Maypops, we found that they do, indeed, have some super good qualities, might even make a new commercial crop for the production of Maypop wines and jellies. Also learned that they may be used to add ornamental interest to gardens. We'd nominate them for the natural garden we're hoping will one day be planted by the historic courthouse -- though we'd bow to Mike and Alicia Bosela's greater wisdom on that issue. And we don't know, and can't vouch for the safety of the Maypop fruit, but Evelyn Dillingham seems to be doing just fine after a childhood of consumption of the fruit with abandon. While I was intent on carrying out Mike Morris' directive, Linda spotted a Mapop blossom along our route and took a photo of it. I thought her's was a bit past peak, but indulged her womanly whimsies and waited patiently while she photographed it. When we got to Jones Chapel Road, I took the photo of the Passion Flower Mike had directed me to. I thought it was the best picture, but after posting both, I'd have to leave criticism of the two with the readers and Mike Morris. I think I spotted the a developing fruit in my picture, but it may be just my luck that it is post fruit stage. Again, we'll accept the expertise of Mike Morris, or other botanical expert betters. Barring an amicable resolution to the opinions of Mike Morris and Vicky Pike, everybody could do the honorable thing and arm wrestle or meet on the Public Square and match wits. (On most other important issues, the two seem to be agreeable, especially on religious denominations and politics.) This story was posted on 2016-09-05 07:49:58
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