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 ...

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 ...

If you take a walk in the forest around Halloween, you might just come across a bunch of what appears to be softball-sized green brains laying all over the ground. If you look up, you may still see ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The hedge apple, also known as Osage orange or mock orange, is the distinctive fruit of the Osage orange tree (Maclura pomifera).

While many Oklahomans have undoubtedly seen the yellow-green, grapefruit-sized fruit at farmer’s markets, supermarkets, garden centers and other locations, few individuals know much about these rather ...

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 ...

“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 ...

The green brains of alien life forms scattered on the ground under certain trees are no cause for alarm. Actually, they are not alien brains at all, but the fruit of the osage orange, a tree common to ...

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 ...

"To develop a complete mind: Study the art of science; study the science of art. Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else." — Leonardo da Vinci As an illustration of the ...

Although Osage orange is one name for this East Texas tree, they are also known as horse apples, hedge apples, bodark, bois d’arc and bow wood. They grow in many other parts of the U.S. too. Their ...