It was the tree’s potential as a living hedge that made the Osage orange a hot commodity in the nineteenth century, and a valued export of Texas—the fruit and its seeds were gathered and sold ...

The tree responsible for the green brain blobs is the Osage orange tree. It has also been called hedge apple, or bow dark. Each of these names can be understood better once you learn about how the ...

The tallest Osage orange tree on record, an ancient specimen in Red Hill, Pennsylvania, reaches some 65 feet. The bodark even grows in parts of Canada. Notably, in front of the big, scary house in ...

When the fruits of the Osage orange tree fall to the ground in autumn, they demand notice. For one thing, they’re the size of softballs—the largest fruit of any tree native to North America.

Just a whiff takes me back to friendly (mostly) Osage orange contests. We hurled fast-ball fruit at tree trunks (mostly) during autumn. “You could put out an eye throwing those!” echoes in a deep ...

It's likely that the giant herbivores browsed on Osage-orange leaves and ate the fruit. Ice Age creatures have come and gone, but the Osage-orange tree remains. Today's animals are disinterested ...

The Osage orange tree drops its fruit, a bumpy, yellow-green apple-sized sphere, in fall. Inside is a fleshy exterior and tiny seeds.

The Osage orange tree, Maclura pomifera, is a close relative of fig trees and breadfruit trees and can attain heights of up to 50 feet. Its heavy, close-grained trunk and branches is made up of ...

Dackow advises against planting Osage orange trees near walkways due to falling fruit hazards: "It’s an attractive tree. There is somewhat of a trip hazard as those fruits do fall, but the same ...

A medium-sized tree adorned with large, round, chartreuse-colored Massive fruit, myths and mastodons: the Osage orange | Good Growing | whig.com Skip to main content ...

The fruit of Osage-orange is where this and the hedge-apple name comes from. Osage-orange is neither a citrus tree nor an apple, but the large, round, green to yellow fruit suggest each to some extent ...

Of all our presidents, Thomas Jefferson clearly had the greenest thumb. The great statesman was a gardener extraordinaire. Monticello, Jefferson’s beautiful Virginia estate, was a horticultural ...