Hello from r/woodworking! Osage Orange wood is very beautiful and hard. If the tree ever falls, woodworkers will fall all over themselves to grab some.
412Clockwork
My grandmother would put these in the basement to keep bugs away, can’t speak to any truth in that or not
Grimsage7777
That’s a devilfruit
Delicious-Moose4468
We called them hedge apples and sometimes our horses would eat them. They also deter bugs and raccoons if places around your home. I am positive humans don’t eat them
gohdnuorg
Put it in a bucket with some water. Then let it rot. The pour it out in a line. In 40 years that will be a fence.
Electronic_Kiwi3839
We called these monkey brains as kids. No idea why but we had a lot of monkey brain fights!
dgross0614
We called them money brains growing up. Would have battles with them like snowball fights.
haceldama13
These work great in the garage or basement to repel spiders.
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Looks like an Osage orange. Edible but not palatable.
Osage orange. That tree produces very rot resistant, extremely dense, tough wood, that also burns very hot. It’s edible, but not very good.
https://rurallivingtoday.com/gardens/osage-orange-tree/
In Indiana we call them hedgeapples. We don’t eat them.
osage orange. The wood makes great bows and tool handles the fruiting bodies just make for litter on the side of the road.
100% edible… if you’re a horse.
We call them horse apples
[They were eaten by Wolly Mammoths!](https://www.americanforests.org/article/the-trees-that-miss-the-mammoths/) After their extinction, the tree relied on humans to plant them because no native animals were able to eat them and disperse the seeds anymore
These Osage oranges I thought. Not edible.
Hello from r/woodworking! Osage Orange wood is very beautiful and hard. If the tree ever falls, woodworkers will fall all over themselves to grab some.
My grandmother would put these in the basement to keep bugs away, can’t speak to any truth in that or not
That’s a devilfruit
We called them hedge apples and sometimes our horses would eat them. They also deter bugs and raccoons if places around your home. I am positive humans don’t eat them
Put it in a bucket with some water. Then let it rot. The pour it out in a line. In 40 years that will be a fence.
We called these monkey brains as kids. No idea why but we had a lot of monkey brain fights!
We called them money brains growing up. Would have battles with them like snowball fights.
These work great in the garage or basement to repel spiders.