The bois d’arc is a tree with many names, including beau d’arc, Osage orange, horse apple, hedge apple and bodark. French explorers named the tree bois d’arc (wood of the bow) because the ...

Squat, homely, dwarfed by stately oaks and poplars, and unnoticed by the tourists passing in horse-drawn carriages, it's a tree that only birds and nut-hungry squirrels could love. But the 100 ...

The fruit borne by this tree is commonly called hedge apple but are also sometimes referred to as horse-apple, hedge balls, and mock-orange. And I have heard more than one youngster playing with ...

Hedge apple is just one of the names for these trees. You might have heard them called horse apples, bois d’arc, monkey brains, monkey ball, yellow-wood, mock orange or Osage orange.

The fruits of the Osage orange tree, somewhat confusingly known as hedge apples, are softball-sized and unpalatable to most animals. But the tree has had an outsize impact on U.S. history.

There’s a way to feed an apple to a horse: Keep your hand as flat as you can, making it more of a tray, while proffering the fruit. If you drop the apple, that’s preferable to maybe losing a ...

Thorns of the Osage orange tree are an inch long and grow on the branches and on the trunk. Other names for the tree include hedge apple, horse apple and bois d’arc.

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