“Monkey brains!” the kids exclaimed as we reached the old dirt road. I was leading an outdoor school program, and it took me a moment to realize the students were referring to the big, lumpy fruit ...

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 ...

Question: I am building a hedge row and am contemplating working with Osage-orange seedlings and planting them. Is this a good choice? Answer: Osage-orange, (Maclura pomifera) aka hedge, hedge-apple, ...

The heyday of living fences on farms lasted less than 30 years. But Osage orange trees, descendants of fence rows planted as early as the 1840s, still line country roads and fill hedge lines ...

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.

The Osage orange (Maclura pomifera,) also known as a “hedge-apple,” is a small deciduous tree with simple alternate leaves, twisted branches and a wide-spreading profile. The bark and roots of the ...

Incompatible trees can pose a variety of risks throughout energy rights-of-way (ROW). For one, expansive root systems not only threaten the integrity of oil and gas pipeline infrastructure, but they ...

The Osage Orange, fairly common in the Skiatook area and named for the Osage Nation, is a tree with many names, among them Hedge Apple, Bois d’Arc and Horse Apple. It was originally native to the Red ...

Osage Orange (Maclura pomifera) derived its common name from the Osage Indians in Oklahoma and Texas and the orange-smelling fruits. The Latin name comes from William Maclura, an American geologist ...

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Today I'm talking about brains and aliens. No, I'm not confused, here is the story: When my son Bob arrived home for Christmas -- he lives in North Carolina -- he came into the kitchen and looked at ...

“Limitations often produce the best results because imagination and determination can surpass any shortfall and determine the way forward — always.” Those were the words director Ridley Scott used in ...