OT What is it??

I growed up in NY and I ain't never seen a tree with these things in em. Til yesterday. I found a tree right full of these things. Anybody know what they are?

Looks like a horse apple to me. Not really good for anything, just don't burn them.

Kevin

Some put them in the basement, controls spiders a tad.

--->Paul

We always called them hedge apples. Grandma put them around her old cellar walls to keep bugs out. Millions of them in KS.

Hedge apples, NOT edible. Tree is a yellow hedge

Hedge ball or hedge apple.Still used for pest(rat,mouse,bat) deterrent because of their foul smell

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osage-orange">Hedge apple</a>

it is a horseapple from a boadarc tree exelant tree to make long bows and fence posts from jones

Osage orange....WNY has them also.

Osage orange or Hedge apple thorns are a flat tire for sure, mow them if you like to fix tires!

Dad said growing up, they would use the trees for fence posts-never rot-you just had trouble attaching to them for the hardness! Greg

Osage orange (species "Maclura pomifera).Western NY. has them.Orchard Park country club has a whole fence row of them.Make real good fence posts and the wood used to used for long bows.

They're kinda tough on chain saws too. They're in Ohio, but not too many anymore. I wouldn't cut one down for that reason. rw

Monkey Ball(keeps spiders away)-people put them in there basements.

Plenty Of Hedge Apples here in west Central Ind.
At The Covered Bridge Festival In Parke County, they Were Selling Them, and i overheard someone ask, what do you do with them & another city slicker said you make Pies out of them. Ha

Delicious and nutritious. They taste like chicken.

Hedge tree fruit with seeds in the center. When the weather gets bad enought squirrels will eat them for the seeds. Ever been in a head ball throwing fight? Never seen any trees sprout from the seed under the trees in a pasture. Some will spray paint them various colors in the fall for decorations.

I was working on a railroad crossing in Buffalo,NY yesterday. This tree was on the other side of the street. I live about 35 miles east of Rochester,NY. I,ve never seen one before.. A big thanks to all that replied.

where in buffalo? notice that half of the trees still had thier leaves.

In Texas that's known as a Bois d'arc fruit or better know in the slang term as a horse apple. We used to cut the fruit in half and lay them around the floor in the kitchen to keep the cockroaches out.
The name Bois d'arc is pronounced "Bow Dark". The wood from the tree is hard as steel, ask anyone that tries to cut one with a saw. Years ago they used bois d'arc stumps for piers under homes, they never would rot away. Better than concrete. My Dad bought an old home built in the early 1900's in east Texas and that is what held it off the ground. A few had shifted and I had to reposition them and do some shim work in th e 90's, but I can assure you none had any rot or termites. He also had a bois d'arc growing along a fence row he asked me to remove. I cut it back and poured rock salt on it and around it, stupid thing refused to die. I tried stump killer, and every kind of tree killer chemical concoction known to man and it just seemed to defy death and would grow more suckers out the base of the stump. Finally in desperation I brought down a Case 580 backhoe to dig it out. I dug around it, got under it with the bucket and started lifting. There was a root that was at least 60 feet long coming up with it removing the fence with it. I cut off the root a good 10 feet away from the stump and yanked the bulk of it all out. Backfilled the hole with dirt and rocksalt and let him know that would take care of the problem. Nope, I was wrong. Next spring it came back up where I dug the stump out as well as where the root was cut off 10 feet away. From then on he just would mow it off when mowing the grass and it never could get over a few inches tall. He sold the house 5 or 6 years later and that stupid tree was still trying to find sunshine.
Anyway, google bois d'arc and you can learn more about the Texas tree that most call a big weed and I called the concrete tree.

Fruit of the Osage Orange or Hedge Apple,makes good Rodent Bait around a Crib.JC

Osage Orange has the highest BTU rating of any native tree firewood. Even higher than Hickory.

Yep just watch it or you can destroy a wood stove. Too hot. also do not burn in fireplaces as it will throw sparks everywhere.

"Come on guys" it"s simple , our new President!!!!!

My brother-in-law's Dad says in W.Virginia the trees were cut and the sap used to make the olive-drab die for WW 1 soldier's fatigues.

The trees acquired the name bois d'arc, or "bow-wood", from early French settlers

Ewwwh!!! Hedge apple, I hate those stupid things I grew up with them still have a bruise on my back when my brother said think fast and threw one to me to catch I didn't get turned quick enough and knocked me straight to the ground. I was never hit that hard playing fast pitch softball.

Hedge is still the best for corner posts, if you dont mind the work putting them in. My dad used to drill a 1 1/2 in hole with an auger, put a stick of dynamite in and resulting explosion would make the perfect corner post hole. Set the post in, add big rocks and cement and you couldn't budge the thing. I still have some standing that my dad put in in 1952. Nothing else would have lasted that long. Old post make good firewood in a longwood furnace, just dont put in too many as they will melt a stove.


Gene