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Proper name is hedgeapple, but called horse apples around here. Happen upon this <font color="blue"> web site </font> some time ago. Who would have thought you could sell these things. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif I have hundreds on them laying on the ground rotting away.
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Proper name is hedgeapple, but called horse apples around here )</font>
I grew up in southern Oklahoma, where they were also called horse apples, but I thought the proper name was bois d'arc. And when I was little kid, I thought I knew why they were called horse apples, because my first horse loved'em; ate'em like candy. We didn't have any in our pasture, so I'd go get them from the adjoining neighbor's pasture for him. And then later, I had two other horses, and I never saw a horse that would touch one except that first old horse.
I grew up in southern Oklahoma, where they were also called horse apples, but I thought the proper name was bois d'arc. And when I was little kid, I thought I knew why they were called horse apples, because my first horse loved'em; ate'em like candy. We didn't have any in our pasture, so I'd go get them from the adjoining neighbor's pasture for him. And then later, I had two other horses, and I never saw a horse that would touch one except that first old horse.
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Horse apple! Otherwise known as bodarc
Solo
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Wow!!
I'm sitting on a fortune.
One mans trash is another mans treasure.
Solo
I'm sitting on a fortune.
One mans trash is another mans treasure.
Solo
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I've always known them as Osage Oranges. The wood of the tree is bright yellow and very rot resistant. Commonly used for fenceposts (the wood not the fruit) /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
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I've seen the logs used for house piers. The wood is murder to cut with a chainsaw.
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OK. Here is another <font color="blue"> web site </font> on the Osage Orange tree. Read down in it to find the origin of Bois D'Arc.
Lots of fences have been built with Bois D'Arc fence posts. A Bois D'Arc fence post will last an awfully long time.
Lots of fences have been built with Bois D'Arc fence posts. A Bois D'Arc fence post will last an awfully long time.
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( A Bois D'Arc fence post will last an awfully long time )</font>
Yep, when I was a kid, there weren't enough of the to do all the fence building, so you used those for your corner posts.
Yep, when I was a kid, there weren't enough of the to do all the fence building, so you used those for your corner posts.
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Used to have dodgeball / horse apple fights when I was a kid. They DO hurt.
Many years ago, quite a few old homes were built on top of bois d'arc posts. Pronounced BOdark.
Many years ago, quite a few old homes were built on top of bois d'arc posts. Pronounced BOdark.