Balsam Apple Fruits and Vine Traits
The balsam apple or momordica shows curious nubby fruits and yellow flowers with darker centers. Vines climb with tendrils and reach feet high, require tropical tender annual care, seeds started indoors or planted after frost. Leaves are large lobed, fruits egg shaped and yellow to orange, seeds flat greyish brown with scalloped edges.
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Blind Snakes Invade Homes Across Texas
Homeowners report an annual spring influx of burrowing blind snakes in yards garages and houses. Officials from police sheriff county health and agriculture departments and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department urge calm noting these snakes are harmless and emerge mainly at night from underground.
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Police and Fire Blotter Detailed Weekstart Incidents
Local police logged several accidents and thefts early in the week with items stolen from a Little League supply house including a battery spare tire and a portable color TV. A burglary yielded candy baseballs and snow cone syrup. Two cars collided on East Broadway. no injuries but one driver cited. Three juveniles held in a sign theft case. one charged with simple theft. Fire department answered three alarms. grass fires and a trash fire caused no reported damage.
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