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 ...

Osage orange is a small to medium-sized tree or large shrub, planted across the United States for hedges, ornamental use, and shade. Originally it was found in Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma. The name ...

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 ...

Today we are going to have fun with the Osage orange, “maclura pomifera” — also known as brain fruit, monkey brains, Irish snowballs, postwood, bow wood, yellow wood, hedge oranges, hedge apples and ...

While traveling through the Midwest on leaf peeping adventures, modern day explorers may find a rather nondescript tree with unique, distinct fruit. A medium-sized tree adorned with large, round, ...

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).