The softball-sized fruits of the Osage orange may have evolved to be eaten by extinct megafauna, and their wood is ideal for making archery bows and warm fires. The fruits of the Osage orange tree, ...

Every fall Osage oranges or hedge apples are found in some supermarkets in the produce section, but they are not edible. They are sold for decoration and to repel insects. These softball sized ...

Each year in mid- to late October, the OSU Extension office fields questions about hedge apples, an oddity of nature which seem to fall from the sky in autumn. These large and heavy fruits with an odd ...

Osage oranges, also known as monkey balls, litter the ground in the late fall. Every fall, the ground is covered with the fruit of the Osage orange, those grapefruit-sized, bumpy green orbs that often ...

Osage orange trees were again the most popular tree used. The fruits themselves, though technically edible, are described as having a latex that’s hard to remove and known to cause dermatitis in some ...

Osage oranges look like a cross between a neon green brain and a baseball. The fruit is hardy enough to survive fall frosts when they’re grown in container gardens and used in floral arrangements.

RED OAK, Iowa – Twigs snapped and leaves tore as a grapefruit-sized Osage orange lost its grip high in the tree and slammed into the ground. Whump! Startled, I jerked my head toward the wallop before ...