TREEmendous #6 Multi-Cache

This cache has been archived.

Strider: Looks like the old tree finally is gone, so I am going to archive this cache. Thanks everybody!

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Hidden : 4/16/2011
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Tree in a Tree


A brief introduction: Osage orange (Maclura pomifera) has many names, including Horse apple, Bois D’Arc, and Bodark.

A little bit more about the tree: It is a small deciduous tree or large shrub, typically growing 26 to 49 feet tall. It is dioeceous, with male and female flowers on different plants. The fruit, a multiple fruit sometimes called a hedge apple, is roughly spherical but bumpy, is 7 to 15 centimeters in diameter, and it is filled with a sticky white latex sap. Fan Fact! The Osage orange is commonly used as a tree row windbreak in prairie states, which gives it one of its colloquial names: “hedge apple.” It was one of the primary trees used in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s “Great Plains Shelterbelt” WPA project, which was launched in 1934 as an ambitious plan to modify weather and prevent soil erosion in the Great Plains states, and by 1942 resulted in the planting of 30,233 shelterbelts containing 220 million trees that stretched for 18,600 miles.

The following is written on a sign near the starting waypoint:

This site honors the ancient Osage Indian Presence in Missouri. An Osage Orange sapling has been planted inside the hollow trunk of an old Red Oak. One branch of the sapling has been tethered through the eastern side of the trunk. The sapling itself symbolizes a re-rooting of the Osage people in the earth of their ancestral land. Indians of North America often manipulated trees by bending branches while they were still growing. These marker or guide trees usually pointed towards water or sacred places. The tethered branch on this tree points eastward. The Osage believed they were always traveling in an easterly direction on their life paths. It is also a conceptual journey that they take each day. The orientation of the tree towards the rising sun also symbolizes a new beginning. It is a gesture of support and hope for the revitalization of Osage culture and language, as well as the growth of more positive relations with and between cultures and the generation of more positive conditions of the environment that we all share."

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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