The fruit borne by this tree is commonly called hedge apple but are also sometimes referred to as horse-apple, hedge balls, and mock-orange. And I have heard more than one youngster playing with ...

After pollination, birds in the tree's native habitat relish the small oval orange-to-red fruit. In tropical climates, the mock orange is grown as an ornamental tree or hedge.

T he 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 ...

Mock Orange, Philadelphus, is an old-fashioned, ... While they resemble and smell like an orange tree, ... Mock Orange plants are not fruit-bearing. Clusters of white flowers, single or double, ...

It was the tree’s potential as a living hedge that made the Osage orange a hot commodity in the nineteenth century, and a valued export of Texas—the fruit and its seeds were gathered and sold ...

Grow mock orange from seeds to get a strong plant. The fruit with seeds inside is red when ripe. ... With time they can become a 20- to 30-foot tree.

The tallest Osage orange tree on record, an ancient specimen in Red Hill, Pennsylvania, reaches some 65 feet. The bodark even grows in parts of Canada. Notably, in front of the big, scary house in ...

image: Fruit of the mock orange tree, containing the seeds that are widely dispersed by native bird species. view more . Credit: J Healey, Bangor University.

Viewers mock woman who has been buying lemons—while having a lemon tree in her yard ‘When life gives you lemons, buy them at the store. I think that’s the saying.’ ...

Oranges, the fruit, take their name from the Sanskrit nāraṅga meaning orange tree.Nāraṅga morphed via the Persian word nâranj and the French pomme d’orenge, meaning “apple of the orange ...