Hedge apples, also known as osage oranges, are generally not edible. It has a bad taste, even though hedge apples smell like an orange. Good news, hedge apples are non-poisonous. However, if you really want to eat hedge apples, you can eat its seeds. #backyardgardening #Plants #Gardening #UrbanOrganicYield
The Osage orange, also known as a hedge apples (and in some areas, “monkey balls”), is a tree that grows in North America, and gets its name from the Osage Native American tribes who used its hard …
Hedge apples are the fruit of the Osage orange tree. This hardwood tree produces the oddly shaped fruit during the late summer and early fall months. Hedge apples are great centerpieces for harvest and Thanksgiving displays and will keep their color for months if properly preserved.
Osage oranges, hedge apples, horse apples, monkey brains… these are synonymous for the fruit that falls from the hedge tree. If you don’t live in rural…
Hedge apples grow on the osage orange tree, a thorny, shrublike tree that grows in the central United States. Hedge apples are neither apples nor oranges. These baseball-sized inedible fruits are fibrous, though they do resemble oranges once they are fully mature. The dried hedge apples are used in dried flower and ...
I couldn't stand it any longer. I just had to find some. I'd seen them when Kim and I went to the Scott's Antique Market. Then, Alison @ The Polohouse showed them in her post. Since the Hedge apples I saw at Scott's weren't very pretty, I didn't buy any and decided to look for some online. They arrived Saturday, and I've had so much fun trying them in different places around the house. First, I put them on my transferware platter on the chest in the entry, and added a flower arrangement…
We are going to sow a sustainable living fence in the spring. An old fashioned hedge-row. The hedge will be made from Hedge Apple. Early settlers planted the Hedge Apple (Osage Orange) which is in…