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A Pile of "Brains"!
Look what we found in the woods–wow, what memories. When I was a young tadpole, my younger brother used to call them “brains”, which of course would make us all laugh. I decided to pile them up and take a picture. Don’t I look great? Did you notice that I didn’t tell you what these green, bumpy orbs are called? I know–but do you? Leave me a message and let’s see who’s the first reader to identify them correctly!
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November 14th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
After a short google break…
The osage orange is a small decidious tree or large shrub known scientifically as the “maclura pomifera.” Of course, I knew the Latin all along but I wasn’t sure whether it was a medium-sized shrub or a large shrub so I had to do some research.
November 14th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
My first instinct was to say “road apples” but then I remembered that this is an entirely different thing. I knew the term “hedge apples” but don’t know them as “osage orange.” The reason that “osage orange” didn’t ring a bell for me is that it’s not in the Latin.
November 14th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Hedge apples, also known as osage orange!
November 14th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Hey Polly, Hey Polly, Hey Polly!!!!!!!!!!
They’re called hedge apples!!!! Thanks for the great pop quiz! Give me more fun things to answer!! I’m a huge fan!
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:23 pm
My cousins used to call them, “monkey brains”, but of course they are really called Hedge Apples!
November 27th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
Farmer’s used to plant osage orange trees very close together forming a hedge around their pasture. The tree trunks grew thick, twisted and knarly … farmers claimed that this type of ‘fence’ was “horse high, pig tight and bull strong”!