By December, most plants have shed their leaves and disperse their seeds. There are many fascinating ways in which the plants ensure the dispersal of their seeds to allow successful germination. Seeds ...

Osage oranges, also known as monkey balls, litter the ground in the late fall. Every fall, the ground is covered with the fruit of the Osage orange, those grapefruit-sized, bumpy green orbs that often ...

Osage oranges look like a cross between a neon green brain and a baseball. The fruit is hardy enough to survive fall frosts when they’re grown in container gardens and used in floral arrangements.

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 ...

The hedge apple, also known as Osage orange or mock orange, is the distinctive fruit of the Osage orange tree (Maclura pomifera). These large, green, wrinkled spheres have long been a source of ...

Osage orange trees were again the most popular tree used. The fruits themselves, though technically edible, are described as having a latex that’s hard to remove and known to cause dermatitis in some ...

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, ...

If you’ve spent any significant amount of time in North Texas in fall and winter, you’ve likely encountered a bizarre, unappetizing-looking fruit that can best be described as resembling a green, ...

Prime Day Deals: Shop sales in tech, home, fashion, beauty & more curated by our editors. Some plants can kill you and I don’t mean by poison. Take the legendary osage orange, aka hedge apple (Maclura ...

This “hardy and interesting” naturalized tree could be a good fit for your front yard. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources’ January Tree of the Month is the Osage orange. It grows an iconic ...

Today I'm talking about brains and aliens. No, I'm not confused, here is the story: When my son Bob arrived home for Christmas -- he lives in North Carolina -- he came into the kitchen and looked at ...