The fruits of the Osage orange tree, somewhat confusingly known as hedge apples, are softball-sized and unpalatable to most animals. But the tree has had an outsize impact on U.S. history.

Osage Orange (Maclura pomifera ... The tree produces large, round, bumpy fruits, known as “hedge apples,” that are green to yellow-green and about 4-6 inches in diameter.

The hedge apple, also known as Osage orange or mock orange, is the distinctive fruit of the Osage orange tree (Maclura pomifera). These large, green, wrinkled spheres have long been a source of ...

Maclura pomifera is known widely by a few names: the Osage orange, the hedge apple, or the horse apple, though it is neither an orange nor an apple and is more closely related to the mulberry.

But Osage orange trees, descendants of fence rows planted as early as the 1840s, still line country roads and fill hedge lines throughout central Illinois. As the name suggests, the Osage orange ...

but in the last century the tree has “escaped” and is found throughout the U.S. It is most commonly known as Osage orange, but other names include hedge, hedge-apple, yellow-wood, bowwood ...

“I’ve seen some just really amazing pictures where people planted Osage orange in a hedge, and it gets so tangled and hard, you could actually walk on top of it,” says Kip ...

Hedge is also known for the heat it produces when used as firewood. However, this is just scratching the surface of this tree’s story. (Since “Osage orange” and “hedge” are common names ...

Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The hedge apple, also known as Osage orange or mock orange, is the distinctive fruit of the Osage orange tree (Maclura ...