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Squanch72

Squanch72

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nepenthe said:
Although we used to call them mock oranges, we used to have osage orange trees in our back yard when I was a kid. My father cut them down after a few years because he kept getting tire punctures in his lawn tractor from the thorny branches that would drop from the trees. Those trees have the hardest wood I've ever seen.
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I saw pictures of them used as fences out west. Somehow they force the limbs to grow low to the ground and make a natural fence.
 
The Kap'n

The Kap'n

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Squanch72 said:
I saw pictures of them used as fences out west. Somehow they force the limbs to grow low to the ground and make a natural fence.
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We called them "Mock Oranges". Honestly didn't know they were called anything else. We had a tree on my parent's street that would pelt your car with these massive things for a short time every year.
 
Squanch72

Squanch72

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Kapmcrunk said:
We called them "Mock Oranges". Honestly didn't know they were called anything else. We had a tree on my parent's street that would pelt your car with these massive things for a short time every year.
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I was doing field work one day at my old job and it was at this big rich house with a super long driveway. Both sides of the driveway were lined in huge adult trees. First time I saw one and my co-worker explained what they were, she called them Japanese oranges. Then I bought my house a few years later and it had one, second time I ever saw one. Oh man that must of dinged up the cars bad.
 
Groggy

Groggy

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verticity said:
Swamp monsters?
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I spent a year in Florida and it was the worst state I have ever been/lived in, it's always hot and muggy, when it rains (rarely) it gets even worse. I never thought I'd dislike sunny weather everyday so much, lol. My older Sister lives in Miami, I have set vacation limits for myself to a week max and around Christmas time, because that's the only time that kind of weather is bearable to me.
 
Sam Handwich

Sam Handwich

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Kapmcrunk said:
We called them "Mock Oranges". Honestly didn't know they were called anything else. We had a tree on my parent's street that would pelt your car with these massive things for a short time every year.
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That's funny, I've never heard them called Mock Oranges, just Osage Orange or Hedge Apple. One of the hardest and hottest burning woods in North America. Like squanch said they have been used to make fences or hedges (ie: hedge apple) out west. The "oranges" are full of seeds, they would turn the seeds into a slurry with water and drizzle it off the back of a wagon so that the trees would grow tightly knotted together. Native Americans also used the wood to make bows. It's a strange and interesting tree.
 
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