The hedge apple you were tasting wasn't ripe yet, you know that, right? No WONDER it tasted green, and the seeds were still small and white. A fully ripe hedge apple has larger seeds that are dark brown or black.
@@coolcucumbers7601 I'm sure they also go by that name but they are cellar spiders. They originally lived on the outsides of dark crevices like cave mouths, now our homes are their homes.
You can eat them? I used to sneak out of Church when I was a Kid and they were in the forest and I used to throw them at trees and the ground to make them explode.
haha you reminded me of baseball camps and the field waaaaaaay out back had a few of these dropping beyond the outfield. They made great explosive softballs.
I always heard there poisonous and I also heard if you eat a couple of pieces they would make you hallucinate. we always used them to play baseball and farmers use the wood for post because they have a natural resistance are really strong and lasts a really long time.
Osage orange was used as a decoration during the 18th and 19th century. They would be punctured and cinnamon sticks would be stuck into the holes. As the fruit would start to rot, the mixture of cinnamon and the osage orange would create a pleasant aroma through the house.
Osage seeds are really difficult to germinate.Elephants in a zoo in Florida were fed Osage oranges and the seeds once they had gone through their digestive systems, germinated readily in their dung. suggesting it evolved along with Mastodons and Mammoths .
I soaked 3 or 4 to try to separate the seeds to try to root one. I finally got 2 to sprout and only one survived and is growing. I wanted one only because there are a few around town but no new ones and I like to grow stuff so....
You'll get better results tossing the whole fruit in a hole. They tend to come up like a hedge if you do it that way. Sandy soil is better, they're susceptible to molds.
I've always liked them personally. Bark has a nice orange color, tree has a nice shape to it. Its a medium size tree. And they live a very long time, and can get very thick trunks. Also the wood is very hard. Said to make chainsaws spark. Makes great wood for bows, fence posts, and also burns very nicely. The wood is also very rot resistant and even dead trees have been known to stand for decades after they die. All in all very useful and attractive tree.
I’ve got two in my yard one from seed, one from a nursery. Very fast growing! Hard to kill. I love the smell of the fruit. That piney white grapefruit smell.
When I was a kid we had a row of these that reached about 4 blocks down our alley. The monarch butterflies would just cover them at certain times of the year. As a kid we thought the perfect use for them was to throw them at each other. They would eventually start to rot making them even better weapons because of the stench. I will never forget the smell.
@Bill Wakefield I was taught that meant "board of the ark". I assumed Noah's ark. But maybe the ark of the covenant. We called it "bo dark" trees. The wood was referred to as bow wood though. We made bows from the limbs as kids. We called them horse apples. Squirrels were the only thing we knew that would eat them. And then only in late winter when there was nothing else.
@Bill Wakefield I have no reason to dispute that. I know I wasn't told that by French speakers. (I'm guessing it's French) They shoot arc and arrows, that's cool.
When I was a child in Dallas seventy-odd years ago, the bois d'arc tree was common in many neighborhoods. I just learned from Wiki that the tiny area of pre-Colombian America where the tree was native includes the land where Dallas now stands. Now that's what I would call a Texas native.
It's pronounced O-sage , believe it's the name of a Native American tribe. Well, that's how it's said in Kansas City and around the Midwest Nice video!
folks would cut up the fruit and leave it near doors and such to keep cockroaches and other bugs out of their house. they dont like the smell of the fruit.
Joe Brechting African medlars taste great, if you should be around southern europe one day or you find them in the us, you definatly have to try them ;)
I had a horse years ago, that loved to eat them. They won't hurt horses and will probably not hurt cattle. The guy doing this video, must not know much about them if he doesn't know about the "substance inside them." He's holding one. Does he ever go outside?
They just opened a factory in Monmouth,il. They take the oil from them for cosmetics, shampoos and perfume. They makeing biodiesel fuel from the leftovers. Everything used. No waste. No carbon footprint. O pollution. And they paying good money to bring them in. 180 dollars a ton or 10 each brought in by buckets! Awesome processing plant.
Now that's a great idea, using them as a source of biomass, compost, or oil for biodiesel. Makes me wonder what else they may be good for. Although...maybe not compost. If the seeds survived composting you'd have b'ois darc trees sprouting all over your garden. I have read they can make a nice "living fence", not sure how accurate that is. It's easy to find a lot of stuff that sounds like a good idea, but in practice doesn't actually work very well, or not for long. People write articles without having tried things in real life. I wonder if they dry well, and can be burned for fuel? Or fermented to make an alcohol fuel?
Horses, cows, and goats love to eat it. The milky juice has been used for making glue and lacquer ( hence the tacky part of your experience.) The fruit has been used in making a salve that is supposed to have been excellent according to a native American friend however she is the only source I have on that. Her grandmother used to make the salve but has since passed on so she may have taken the secret of making it with her.
I wasn’t expecting to be entertained for 18 minutes by a video about eating hedge apples but here we are. Funny, endearing and informative. Thank you for your time!
The Orange Osage pods can be broken up in a bucket with some water and planted at the same time as you would plant corn in the springtime what will come up will be hundreds of trees which will have thorns on them which makes a nice barrier around your garden I did this and it worked marvelously
The Amerindiands did this to make hedges, with grape vines too for firewood. The bark comes in orange layers, beautiful color. You can slice them, cut a hole and make xmas ornaments.
I have 5 of them that I found in some woods nearby. It's the Fall of the year right now, will they last until Spring or do I soak them right now, remove the seeds and plant them in the Spring?
Pronounced oh-sage, it was called the Orange of the Osage. The Osage Indians did not eat them but did make their bows from them. The wood is generally considered 2nd only to Yew as a bow wood. The wood is fluorescent under black light when freshly cut as is Honey and Black Locust and I believe Mulberry. The Locusts and Osage Orange trees have thorns which were said to discourage mammaths. Modern elephants love to eat them I'm told. Also the wood from the Osage Orange will leach color into water and is used to dye yarn and fabric. One reason it is often times referred to as "Hedge" is that you can take cut branches from the tree and just shove them into the ground and they will grow. Using stems and branches from several trees planted 1 or 2 feet apart, after a couple of years you would have a formidable hedge or fence that would contain all livestock and protect them from most predation as well. Interesting and useful tree. After all that, I still have never tried to eat a hedge apple.
I wonder if they could be reached and cooked or made into a jam when ripened. The seeds can be used like sesame or poppy seeds when roasted. Or added to bread. They actually look very much like grapefruit. Maybe fried like chips. Practically anything can be edible deep fried! Lllol
Always was told they were poisonous. The juice from the rind is bitter and makes your mouth feel funny and is very sticky. My Aunt kept them around to kill roaches. I'm not sure it worked, but she thought so. The only useful thing I heard about was to grow close together in a row for a fence or barrier to keep deer out or livestock in. The thorns certainly do a good job at discouraging anything. SO, if you have any elephants to feed, maybe you could grow some.
@@bushraantonianaiglesiasmuh6233members of the moreace family have poisonous sap called latex but the fruit or the family have least of the toxins same as jackfruit and figs and mulberries.
We lived on a farm in SW Missouri that had a HUGE hedge tree. We would take the hedge apples and "bowl" with them in our drive way. We would also run over them with our car to flatten them and then feed them to the cows to reduce the risk of choking. They LOVED them. They have such a distinctive smell, that even now when I smell it I know that there are rotting hedge apples near by.
I have a friend who sells stuff at Farmer's Markets and I used to work with her sometimes. She calls them "hedge balls." She had a box of these stored to sell to use as spider repellent. I witnessed that spiders had built webs in the box. We had a good laugh about that. She still took them to market and sold them as spider repellent.
Osage orange really is a fascinating species, whether by their supposed association with extinct mammals, their super-hard and good-burning wood, their crazy thorns, and their use as shelterbelts around 100 years ago. Thanks for the effort and for sharing!
wow I had no idea horse apples were edible! my entire life they've been absolutely nothing but a nuisance. they're unpleasant to drive over, the juices will stain your concrete/wood patio/etc., they fall in such large quantities that you can't really pick them all up so they just sit around and get all rotten and nasty, and as you mentioned, if horses (and cattle I suppose) try to eat them they can choke to death, hence the name horse apple. pretty much the only thing they're useful for is throwing at your friends, but even then it's almost not worth it because the juice gets on you and it's so sticky.
I have so many of these all over the ground! Smashed up from cars running over them. I take photos of them because I’m a photographer and it’s something interesting but they are a pain in the arse.
A friend of mine who farms tells me Osage orange wood is really dense. He has fence posts on his farm from the 1920s which look like they are freshly milled. The wood is nearly impossible to drive a nail into-you have to drill them to get wire on them.
After watching your video on osage oranges, there was another on the right hand column about harvesting osage orange wood for staves to make longbows-pretty cool!
I’ve herd this wood dose not rot fast, is great for building bows and boats. I’m a woodworker my self and now I want to try to build something from its wood when I find someone willing to let me cut down one of these trees. We have tons of them in pa and they tend to piss people off.
I’ve worked the wood. Very hard and strong. Though black locust is unrelated, the wood is somewhat similar (though Osage-orange wood is brighter in color until exposure to light dims it). I’m told that if you fuel a wood stove with Osage-orange wood, it can be damaged by the high heat of combustion, much as a coal stove not meant for anthracite will be damaged by burning it. Don’t know if that’s true.
Here, in Ohio, we call em Hedge Apples. You find them along old field row fences. Used to be farmers would cut the green trees and bury the truck for field posts. Then they'd string barbed wire between the posts to fence in livestock. Many of those green trunks would root and start growing again! I got a couple around me and pick the fruit up every fall. My grandma said the juices part made the face look younger.
Hedge Apple trees grow fairly compact and short, full of thorns and I was told that farmers used to plant these to use the same as fencing. They would soak the apples, break them up somewhat and allow days of fermentation. Then, they would plow a furrow of where their fence lines would be best and lay a line of the slurried apple slush in the furrow. The next spring, many would sprout and grow and greater security was had for the farm animals, saving time and money on expensive fencing.
in Oklahoma and Texas they are called bois d'arc trees (pronounce boat arc or boadark ) Which means Bow wood. The wood EXTREMELY hard and rot resistance and yellow was used and traded by Indians to make bows.
The reason we still have these apparently is because even though the giant mastadons that helped spread them are gone, humans found the wood to be extremely useful for making bows, it's a very dense hard wood which is strong and rot resistant. Hence Native Americans used to cultivate the trees and harvest the wood extensively across what is now the USA.
The wood was used for fenceposts because it is so tough. It’s also known as Bois d’arc ( bo-dark) and was used for hunting bows. We kept chunks of it on the back porch by our work boots. It kept the June bugs out of them!
Watermelon rind is delicious! Use a vegetable peeler and remove the outside. Shred the white is h rind. It makes great salad cucumber substitute. Great "Cole slaw", and cooked and canned it's a great sweet pickle or brined. It's healthy too. When I add it to garden salad, I leave a lot more melon on it before I shred it! Quince makes better jelly than Osage orange.
my mother cuts out light green part of watetmelen ring an make preserves out of them jus as you would a peach!! there good not as good as peach or figs but guess anything good with enuff sugar!! lol
I peel off the dark green skin and shop up the light green rind into blocks, boil them with a small amount of water add a small amount of sugar or a pack of jelly, boil for a few minutes and you have watermelon rind jelly...spread on bread or add to ice cream, yummy!
We call them hedge apples. The trees grow in hedge rows along country roads here in Oklahoma. My mom used to cut them up and used them to repel insects in our house.
Hedge apples make cows milk bitter..so my grandfather said.... who had dairy cows...and he kept the cattle away from the trees. We used the wood from the trees to make fence posts. We picked up the hedge apples in the fall and painted them gold or silver, cored them out a bit and stuck candles in them for table decorations. We used them for target practice too.
Interesting about this fruit being desirable to ancient mammals! Cause its the same for the Avocado! :D The Avocado's pit was designed to go unharmed through mammoth digestive systems. And was likely going to go extinct but early humans found their fatty grassy flavor and texture delicious! So we took over cultivating and spreading the seed of the Avocado! :) So I guess you can say that humans don't make everything go extinct.
the Osage orange was also a trade item for the Indians of the lower Mississippi. The wood made the best bows and the plains Indians especially liked them because a very powerful and short bow was easier to use on horseback. to punch through a buffalo's hide on the run , and handle it well you needed short,fast, and power. I doubt that the fruits were used as food , maybe in famine times. the sap from the fruit was also used to waterproof the bowstring an other things.
Thank you for posting this. I appreciate you talking about the effort it took to get to the seeds. I also really like your tasting notes on your videos. Great stuff!
I'm in the south and we call them horse apples. But, I've found that cattle will eat them. I've seen many cows eat them and never seen any choking from them. But, I personally use them as target practice when bow shooting.
Squirrels seem to like em alright. You’ll know where they’ve been sitting in the tree because beneath will be a sticky mound of that pulp. They just hunker down and go to work- getting at the seeds, I imagine.
James, it makes the best fence poles also. It just doesn't seem to rot in the ground at all. These fence poles will last for decades and still be strong as brand new oak.
After I graduated from college (many years ago) my first apartment was a true roach motel. At one point I tried horse apples (the local name for Osage Orange). I had chunks of the stuff all over the house. As far as I could tell, horse apples had absolutely no effect. Side note: if you happen to be a wood worker, Osage Orange wood has a very nice grain structure and is a very pretty yellow color as long as it is not exposed to sunlight (UV, I suspect) for long periods.
@@TiempoNuevo-ew7ty so, selective breeding isn't the kind of GMO the anti-GMO people are even worried about, lol. And the "reasons" are due to adaptation to environment... i.e. you're not gonna cause an apocalypse by selectively breeding palatable osage oranges.
I mean, maybe, but some plants are more difficult than others. They've been trying to breed American Chestnuts to be resistant to Chestnut Blight while still remaining American Chestnuts for decades & haven't gotten anywhere. There is also Indian Potato (Apios Americana), which they've been trying to breed to produce an annual harvest instead of a biannual one so they can turn it into a stable food crop on & off since the 1600s, with the last attempt having been this past decade. Nothing yet on either. But, Native Americans did breed several plants into being safe for human consumption, whether it was intentional or not. That being said, they had over 10,000 years to do it.
Horse apple was used here in Amish PA Dutch country as a natural fencing line between fields since the foliage grows very dense You can still see the remnants of these old field lines along back roads Was also used at Christmas time as the ball base to make the Mistletoe ball that young lovers would kiss under Cheers
I lived on a farm in Kansas...they were planted by the WPA during the dust bowl days, one tough tree! Dangerous 2-3" thorns make livestock stay within bounds. Squirrels that eat the seeds, also ingest some of the sap; it makes their flesh bitter, & inedible. I split the wood for our stove- a Monster Maul was the only thing that worked. The wood throws tons of Sparks. Beautiful wavy grain, however. Kept us very warm, & burned a long time. Never found a medicinal use for any part of the tree.
My Grandmother in Oklahoma had a whole line of about a dozen of these. They also had horses that had to be kept away from them. The horses loved them and would get very bad diarrhea from them to the point it could hurt them if they ate to many of them. My Grandmother paid me to pick the fruit and some native women would come and get them from her.
I’m planning a trip to Iowa next year or two, and will try to find this unusual fruit. I’ve been told the seeds offer a lot of nutrition. And you can use the fruit to make a bread like banana bread or zucchini bread
Are you serious!, those things are edible?, We usually just throw them in the water , in Texas we call them hedge apples, and we don't eat them we consider them poisonous.
While attending KU and, thus, living in Lawrence, Kansas I became acquainted with the Osage orange and never conceived of eating one. The house I rented was on the edge of an abandoned apple orchard that had been ringed with a shelter belt of Osage oranges. The most remarkable thing I retrieved from one of the trees was a complex thorn that was about a foot long and shaped like a Christmas tree with secondary thorns protruding from the main thorn at right angles in graduated lengths.
Hedgeapple wood is excellent firewood , a good night wood as it burns a long time …. and the only wood I know that can be cut and burned in a woodstove that night …. I have heated my home with a lot of hedge .
I used to leave the fruit of Osage Orange out in my woods in Virginia for squirrels to eat. They'll tear apart the flesh to get to the seeds one by one, leaving a pulpy mess afterward. Something would also eat the seeds at night, and I am pretty sure the nocturnal diner was the flying squirrel, which were plentiful in the area (although most folks have no clue and never see one, since the creatures are nocturnal). Recently, I was able to successfully get two Osage Orange seedlings started in southern Minnesota, zone 4b/5a. I obtained fruit from near Winterset, Iowa (south of Des Moines) where Osage Orange are plentiful, in Fall 2015 (you can also purchase live seedlings cheaply on eBay - I did that and all 3 I bought survived and prospered). I cut up the fruit and stomped several chunks into the dirt. Did not tend to them further. The seedlings came up in late spring, and made it to near 15 inches by Fall 2016. Really looking forward to seeing how they make it through the winter and how they do in 2017. Supposedly the species is hardy into zone 4, but I've never seen one in Minnesota or northern Iowa.
I've lived in Virginia, in Pennsylvania and in Texas (three different times) and never seen an Osage Orange in person, so weird. I was asking about them so a friend in Missouri was kind enough to mail me some. They're unusual looking not very fragrant, I read that they don't keep bugs away so I used then as a purely decorative item and when they started to disintegrate I put them out for the squirrels to eat.
Mule deer here in New Mexico seem to like it, I have a tree that drops hundreds of them each year. I read somewhere that pioneers put them in clothing in storage to keep bugs and moths out. They have a very strong wood used for making hunting bows.
That supposed fruit is from the Bodock tree. We had two on our property when I was growing up and we assuredly did not eat them. We used to use the fruit as items we threw at each other while playing war in the back yard. That white stuff is Laytex, the same you see in Jack Fruit, Plumeria, and other types of edible and inedible trees and fruits. The tree itself has one of the hardest woods on the planet other than Lignum Vitae which was so hard they could use it as main shaft bushings in the WW-II Century ships. While his video title says, "How to eat an Osage Orange", we do not advise anyone to eat it.
I found this very interesting. We used to have an Orange Osage down the street. Every year it drop hundreds of of apples their yard. They would be all up & down the sidewalks and in the road. Cars would hit them and they would pile up along side the road. I would take some home and cut them up so as to place chunks of them around our basement. We had a very old house with lots of spiders, ants and other vermin (but no roaches!). I don't know if they did any good, but they were free and all natural, so I did not care. I never considered eating them. I will have to try that some time! BTW, the wood of the tree is supposed to be one of the best woods for making a long bow... that was my brother's hobby at the time.
Fun fact: Osage Orange provided the olive drab color used in WWI uniforms. Before then, it was used for fenceposts because the wood wouldn't rot in the ground. And even before that, it was extraordinarily valuable as bow wood. Native Americans would trade animals for a stick of this wood, and now we find them a nuisance.
We had a horse ranch for 30 years. Some of the horses loved the balls and some didn't. I noticed the ones that ate them had a real technique to eat them. Stood directly over the ball and bit down. Never seemed to hurt them.
Subscribing, considering I have watched a 4 or 5 of your videos now. Each one was a video on an exotic fruit that I had never heard of. I was totally intrigued, because of how you present each fruit and the lengths you go to explain everything you can about them. I live in Ohio, a little bit due east of Cincinnati, and have been around hedge apples all my life. It wasnt until maybe 15 years ago that I figured out that hedge apples came from Osage orange. I have always thought they would give you stomach trouble if you ate them, just like crab apples do. I have smashed them for fun, I have made paint with them, use them as a target, used them as a weapon, but I have never eaten more than the tiniest bit. Probably the same amount you ate. The bitterness to me seems like it was the part that would make your stomach upset. Anyway, great video.
Crab apples give me the unholy shits. Doesn't mean they are poisonous, just that my gut dont like them. One bite dont hurt, but 3 or 4 of those miniatures upsets everything. One this reigns true though, salt does help prevent multiple trips across the house.
I’m 67, when I was elementary age, we would see these laying around on the ground along the path we walked through going to school, which included a student family residential area of the university of Arkansas. They were sticking for sure. We knew them as Horse Apples.
When I was a misguided teenager my friend and I would fill the passenger side floor of a car with Osage oranges and drive around hurling them at mailboxes! It was great fun, but needless to say, this was anti-social behavior and I'm sorry for my sin!
They have them in Virginia too. We called them O/sage orange. Osage like the indian tribe I always thought. My mother's garden club would slice them crosswise (yes, they have sticky milk in them) dry the slices in a low oven. Then they would use them as part of autumn wreaths with nuts, pine and hemlock cones and other dried pods and stuff. They looked like flowers and where rather attractive. Other than that, they are fun to throw.
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The one you have is unripe. They are orange when they ripen in the late fall. Might taste better then. There's a tree of them in Jonesborough, TN downtown.
Neat video. Thanks for going through all that trouble for us. I wonder if getting the seeds would be easier if you let the fruit age/dry a bit. I would also like to see what would happen if you put them in a hot air popcorn popper!
There is an Osage tree down the road from me. The only one I have ever seen, I live in upstate NY..They become a real mess when the fruit fall from the trees..Cars run over them and it is a greenish mess. I find it to be a fascinating tree. I wouldn't want one in my yard.
I previously watched this when I first started following your channel. Rewatching it now and I totally forgot about your comments of poking a spider or smashing it with the fruit being effective. It’s totally cracking me up!
YOU CAN EAT THOSE?! I had heard rumors... but no way... there's a few planted on my campus. Apparently they can grow justabout anywhere. edit: I would have looked up how to roast pumpkin seeds and followed those directions... think they use butter. But still really neat exercise, I'll see if I can catch one of the planty-science profs and convince them to have their students do it or something lol
This was the video I found your channel with..it's been a great couple of years my friend (who is friend to unnamed thousands across the world) . It still holds up four years later
I’m camping in Oklahoma National forest and surrounded by these trees . I was curious as to what they were and found your page. Thank you so much for the extensive research and demonstration. You thoroughly answered my question
Osage ("oh-sage") apple tree is also called Bois D'arc, which is French for "wood of the bow", because it was used by indigenous Americans for making superior archery bows.
Thanks for going through all that. Never knew those damn things were edible. It looks like a lot of effort. My father also did wood-carvings out of the tree, The woods was almost a bright yellow when he first finished it. It has since darkened to a more orange color. Very pretty wood.
I'm glad to have found this video (by accident.) A forester brought a couple of osage oranges to my place of work several years ago and I have wondered about them since then. He also said they were basically useless. I enjoyed your video! How difficult was it to wash that white sticky mess off of everything? It looked awful.
Glad to be of help! They are mostly useless, but can kill some time on a rainy day. Cleaning the knife was the biggest pain, but the gunk does get off if you keep at it.
Im a wood worker, and osage orange is a really cool wood to work with, when you cut it, the wood is a really bright orange and as the oils in the wood oxidize it will become more and more brown over the course of a very weeks
If you liked this video, you'll probably also like this one on how to eat acorns!: ua-cam.com/video/nG6vQ5gXG34/v-deo.html
i used that fruit for a zombie brain when i was making a jack o lantern
What is that title music you use? Fascinating videos by the way.
The hedge apple you were tasting wasn't ripe yet, you know that, right? No WONDER it tasted green, and the seeds were still small and white. A fully ripe hedge apple has larger seeds that are dark brown or black.
Any nutritional value for all that effort?
My people ate the osage for centuries. We also highly prized the wood for making bows.
My grandmother used to boil them. She would then sit on the porch and throw them at ghosts.
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In what culture is that a thing?
Did she ever hit any?
I respect this. It might be the only reason the Great Spirit made for these things - a way to ward of Skinwalkers.
Lmaoooooo
"How to Eat an Osage Orange."
First, be a Mammoth.
I laughed when you poked the spider with the fruit and gently whispered "Does this bother you?"
Yes, very scientific.
that was a daddy long leg
Lol
Cobweb spider
@@coolcucumbers7601 I'm sure they also go by that name but they are cellar spiders. They originally lived on the outsides of dark crevices like cave mouths, now our homes are their homes.
You can eat them? I used to sneak out of Church when I was a Kid and they were in the forest and I used to throw them at trees and the ground to make them explode.
That's a better use for them by far.
holy shit do you live in texas i did the exact same thing as a kid
haha you reminded me of baseball camps and the field waaaaaaay out back had a few of these dropping beyond the outfield. They made great explosive softballs.
@Not Sure _Hey kids! what the hell...? stop that and bring it in! hustle hustle!_
I always heard there poisonous and I also heard if you eat a couple of pieces they would make you hallucinate. we always used them to play baseball and farmers use the wood for post because they have a natural resistance are really strong and lasts a really long time.
Osage orange was used as a decoration during the 18th and 19th century. They would be punctured and cinnamon sticks would be stuck into the holes. As the fruit would start to rot, the mixture of cinnamon and the osage orange would create a pleasant aroma through the house.
Now that is a fun fact! Thanks for sharing.
We still do that here in Finland by sticking cloves into a normal orange. Very very common decoration especially during Christmas time.
Thanks Joseph - Osage orange can be thrown under your house = spiders and other insects hate them .
Yea same in sweden
Master Tracker I've heard the Osage orange also keep s mice away
Osage seeds are really difficult to germinate.Elephants in a zoo in Florida were fed Osage oranges and the seeds once they had gone through their digestive systems, germinated readily in their dung. suggesting it evolved along with Mastodons and Mammoths .
Its always fascinating to me when I find fruits that were spread by extinct animals. :)
Jared Rydelek what other ones you tired from extinct animals?
I don't know about that, they pop up in my yard every year. Super not awesome.
Avocados were spread by extinct megafauna as well
Neil oppa well one that you most likely have tried. Avocado. Thought to be spread by giant sloths
And humans found them and liked them too
I soaked 3 or 4 to try to separate the seeds to try to root one. I finally got 2 to sprout and only one survived and is growing. I wanted one only because there are a few around town but no new ones and I like to grow stuff so....
You'll get better results tossing the whole fruit in a hole. They tend to come up like a hedge if you do it that way. Sandy soil is better, they're susceptible to molds.
Be aware your tree will be either male or female (not both). Usually only male trees are cultivated because the fruit makes a mess under the trees.
I've always liked them personally. Bark has a nice orange color, tree has a nice shape to it. Its a medium size tree. And they live a very long time, and can get very thick trunks. Also the wood is very hard. Said to make chainsaws spark. Makes great wood for bows, fence posts, and also burns very nicely. The wood is also very rot resistant and even dead trees have been known to stand for decades after they die. All in all very useful and attractive tree.
I’ve got two in my yard one from seed, one from a nursery. Very fast growing! Hard to kill. I love the smell of the fruit. That piney white grapefruit smell.
When I was a kid we had a row of these that reached about 4 blocks down our alley. The monarch butterflies would just cover them at certain times of the year. As a kid we thought the perfect use for them was to throw them at each other. They would eventually start to rot making them even better weapons because of the stench. I will never forget the smell.
Not Monarchs, but other orange butterflies including Goatweed Emperor, Questionmark, and Comma.
@@mcbarnhart This was 61 years ago and they were definately Monarch.
YES! We did the same thing--and tried to break them open and "paint" with the whitish-green juices on fences, lol!
The tree it comes from is one of the finest woods on earth for crafting a bow.
@Bill Wakefield I was taught that meant "board of the ark". I assumed Noah's ark. But maybe the ark of the covenant.
We called it "bo dark" trees. The wood was referred to as bow wood though. We made bows from the limbs as kids.
We called them horse apples. Squirrels were the only thing we knew that would eat them. And then only in late winter when there was nothing else.
@Bill Wakefield I have no reason to dispute that. I know I wasn't told that by French speakers. (I'm guessing it's French)
They shoot arc and arrows, that's cool.
@Bill Wakefield I guess I don't speak that lingo either. ☺
Also, if you burn it, it produces the most BTUs per pound of any tree.
Maybe, but I ruin more chain saw blades on this stuff than any other wood!
Aw man I would love to feed a giant sloth hedge apples.
Maybe if they can bring them back to life.
Your dream might be accomplish able get drunk
Are you sure? The big ones were around 12 foot tall and 600 lbs. It kinda sounds like a "slow" death to me.
@@sparkyplugclean2402 actually they weren’t slow at all and could take on a short faced bear and win. Them mfs woulda been scary asf in person
When I was a child in Dallas seventy-odd years ago, the bois d'arc tree was common in many neighborhoods. I just learned from Wiki that the tiny area of pre-Colombian America where the tree was native includes the land where Dallas now stands. Now that's what I would call a Texas native.
I grew up a bit west, in Weatherford, and the tree was almost ubiquitous. We used them as insect repellent and they worked well enough.
texas local*
Bois d'arc means arch wood in french
It's pronounced O-sage , believe it's the name of a Native American tribe.
Well, that's how it's said in Kansas City and around the Midwest
Nice video!
Can confirm! We have osage casinos in Oklahoma, after the tribes!
@@nataliesmith4575 in Oklahoma, our flag even has an Osage shield
I'm from/in Missouri and how he's pronouncing this makes my soul hurt
The wood from the tree is very useful, but the only use I've found for the fruit is at the shooting range as targets
That's the best use for these things that I've heard so far.
folks would cut up the fruit and leave it near doors and such to keep cockroaches and other bugs out of their house. they dont like the smell of the fruit.
Joe Brechting African medlars taste great, if you should be around southern europe one day or you find them in the us, you definatly have to try them ;)
Also useful as batting practice that's what we do with them they explode on contact it's fun
I had a horse years ago, that loved to eat them. They won't hurt horses and will probably not hurt cattle. The guy doing this video, must not know much about them if he doesn't know about the "substance inside them." He's holding one. Does he ever go outside?
They just opened a factory in Monmouth,il. They take the oil from them for cosmetics, shampoos and perfume. They makeing biodiesel fuel from the leftovers. Everything used. No waste. No carbon footprint. O pollution. And they paying good money to bring them in. 180 dollars a ton or 10 each brought in by buckets! Awesome processing plant.
That's amazing! Finally a practical use for these things beside hucking them at street signs.
Now that's a great idea, using them as a source of biomass, compost, or oil for biodiesel. Makes me wonder what else they may be good for. Although...maybe not compost. If the seeds survived composting you'd have b'ois darc trees sprouting all over your garden.
I have read they can make a nice "living fence", not sure how accurate that is.
It's easy to find a lot of stuff that sounds like a good idea, but in practice doesn't actually work very well, or not for long. People write articles without having tried things in real life.
I wonder if they dry well, and can be burned for fuel? Or fermented to make an alcohol fuel?
180 dollars per TON? That doesn't seem like very good money to me.
@@bigoljoe1829 yeah but $10 a bucket isn't half bad.
@@WeirdExplorer in California they call them wood apple or radell snake apples.
Horses, cows, and goats love to eat it. The milky juice has been used for making glue and lacquer ( hence the tacky part of your experience.) The fruit has been used in making a salve that is supposed to have been excellent according to a native American friend however she is the only source I have on that. Her grandmother used to make the salve but has since passed on so she may have taken the secret of making it with her.
INteresting!
We used them for ringworm, and I read once they help treat skin cancer.
Todd Johnson has made a pomifera oil from the seeds. He has a whole line of skincare/makeup from this amazing oil!!
That's so interesting. I'd really like to know how to make salve
I wasn’t expecting to be entertained for 18 minutes by a video about eating hedge apples but here we are. Funny, endearing and informative. Thank you for your time!
The Orange Osage pods can be broken up in a bucket with some water and planted at the same time as you would plant corn in the springtime what will come up will be hundreds of trees which will have thorns on them which makes a nice barrier around your garden I did this and it worked marvelously
That's what some of the old folks here say to do for fencing!
The Amerindiands did this to make hedges, with grape vines too for firewood. The bark comes in orange layers, beautiful color. You can slice them, cut a hole and make xmas ornaments.
I have 5 of them that I found in some woods nearby. It's the Fall of the year right now, will they last until Spring or do I soak them right now, remove the seeds and plant them in the Spring?
Pronounced oh-sage, it was called the Orange of the Osage. The Osage Indians did not eat them but did make their bows from them. The wood is generally considered 2nd only to Yew as a bow wood. The wood is fluorescent under black light when freshly cut as is Honey and Black Locust and I believe Mulberry. The Locusts and Osage Orange trees have thorns which were said to discourage mammaths. Modern elephants love to eat them I'm told. Also the wood from the Osage Orange will leach color into water and is used to dye yarn and fabric. One reason it is often times referred to as "Hedge" is that you can take cut branches from the tree and just shove them into the ground and they will grow. Using stems and branches from several trees planted 1 or 2 feet apart, after a couple of years you would have a formidable hedge or fence that would contain all livestock and protect them from most predation as well. Interesting and useful tree. After all that, I still have never tried to eat a hedge apple.
I wonder if they could be reached and cooked or made into a jam when ripened. The seeds can be used like sesame or poppy seeds when roasted. Or added to bread.
They actually look very much like grapefruit. Maybe fried like chips. Practically anything can be edible deep fried! Lllol
That is breadfruit. This speller!!!
Always was told they were poisonous. The juice from the rind is bitter and makes your mouth feel funny and is very sticky. My Aunt kept them around to kill roaches. I'm not sure it worked, but she thought so. The only useful thing I heard about was to grow close together in a row for a fence or barrier to keep deer out or livestock in. The thorns certainly do a good job at discouraging anything. SO, if you have any elephants to feed, maybe you could grow some.
They aren't poisonous.
@@bushraantonianaiglesiasmuh6233members of the moreace family have poisonous sap called latex but the fruit or the family have least of the toxins same as jackfruit and figs and mulberries.
That odd feel is from all the latex within.
We tried to use it to repel insects and all I can say is that it attracted LOTS of gnats.
We lived on a farm in SW Missouri that had a HUGE hedge tree. We would take the hedge apples and "bowl" with them in our drive way. We would also run over them with our car to flatten them and then feed them to the cows to reduce the risk of choking. They LOVED them. They have such a distinctive smell, that even now when I smell it I know that there are rotting hedge apples near by.
I have a friend who sells stuff at Farmer's Markets and I used to work with her sometimes. She calls them "hedge balls." She had a box of these stored to sell to use as spider repellent. I witnessed that spiders had built webs in the box. We had a good laugh about that. She still took them to market and sold them as spider repellent.
+Greenmama's Garden Hahaa that's hilarious.
Greenmama's Garden FUNNY LOL
I have heard them called that also, and hedge apples, and deer apples..
My mom in law used to put them around her house for that but she cut them in half first. Maybe its the insides that spiders hate.
:D :D spiders are likely the only creature that adores these things
I've seen white tail deer eat hedge Apple in the snow in Missouri also cleaned a couple deer that were full of chewed up hedge Apple
Osage orange really is a fascinating species, whether by their supposed association with extinct mammals, their super-hard and good-burning wood, their crazy thorns, and their use as shelterbelts around 100 years ago. Thanks for the effort and for sharing!
wow I had no idea horse apples were edible! my entire life they've been absolutely nothing but a nuisance. they're unpleasant to drive over, the juices will stain your concrete/wood patio/etc., they fall in such large quantities that you can't really pick them all up so they just sit around and get all rotten and nasty, and as you mentioned, if horses (and cattle I suppose) try to eat them they can choke to death, hence the name horse apple. pretty much the only thing they're useful for is throwing at your friends, but even then it's almost not worth it because the juice gets on you and it's so sticky.
this things can and will kill you if you eat them please dont eat them
I was about to say that looks like a damn hedge apple...
Use to throw them at friends also. This is also the best comment section ever.
I have so many of these all over the ground! Smashed up from cars running over them. I take photos of them because I’m a photographer and it’s something interesting but they are a pain in the arse.
Lol
A friend of mine who farms tells me Osage orange wood is really dense. He has fence posts on his farm from the 1920s which look like they are freshly milled. The wood is nearly impossible to drive a nail into-you have to drill them to get wire on them.
I've heard that. The fruit is pretty much useless but the wood is supposed to be great
After watching your video on osage oranges, there was another on the right hand column about harvesting osage orange wood for staves to make longbows-pretty cool!
I use to cut and sell hedge posts when I was in college for extra money. People will seek out good straight hedge posts from a very long distance.
I’ve herd this wood dose not rot fast, is great for building bows and boats. I’m a woodworker my self and now I want to try to build something from its wood when I find someone willing to let me cut down one of these trees. We have tons of them in pa and they tend to piss people off.
I’ve worked the wood. Very hard and strong. Though black locust is unrelated, the wood is somewhat similar (though Osage-orange wood is brighter in color until exposure to light dims it).
I’m told that if you fuel a wood stove with Osage-orange wood, it can be damaged by the high heat of combustion, much as a coal stove not meant for anthracite will be damaged by burning it. Don’t know if that’s true.
Here, in Ohio, we call em Hedge Apples. You find them along old field row fences. Used to be farmers would cut the green trees and bury the truck for field posts. Then they'd string barbed wire between the posts to fence in livestock. Many of those green trunks would root and start growing again! I got a couple around me and pick the fruit up every fall. My grandma said the juices part made the face look younger.
A commentor recently said the oil from the seeds is being touted as a wrinkle cure, so maybe you grandma was on to something there
It's true! LimeLife by Alcone uses these for their "One Drop Wonder" skin oil. It is amazing!
Hedge Apple trees grow fairly compact and short, full of thorns and I was told that farmers used to plant these to use the same as fencing. They would soak the apples, break them up somewhat and allow days of fermentation. Then, they would plow a furrow of where their fence lines would be best and lay a line of the slurried apple slush in the furrow. The next spring, many would sprout and grow and greater security was had for the farm animals, saving time and money on expensive fencing.
in Oklahoma and Texas they are called bois d'arc trees (pronounce boat arc or boadark ) Which means Bow wood. The wood EXTREMELY hard and rot resistance and yellow was used and traded by Indians to make bows.
interesting!
James Anderson they make great bows, but the wood is hard to work.
yes I know (from cutting corner posts and building fences) Wolfy do you make bows?
Bows, spears and knife handles.
Thousands of miles of these were planted by the WPA in the 30's to makes "shelter belts" to prevent soil erosion after the dust bowl.
The reason we still have these apparently is because even though the giant mastadons that helped spread them are gone, humans found the wood to be extremely useful for making bows, it's a very dense hard wood which is strong and rot resistant. Hence Native Americans used to cultivate the trees and harvest the wood extensively across what is now the USA.
The wood was used for fenceposts because it is so tough. It’s also known as Bois d’arc ( bo-dark) and was used for hunting bows. We kept chunks of it on the back porch by our work boots. It kept the June bugs out of them!
Watermelon rind is delicious! Use a vegetable peeler and remove the outside. Shred the white is h rind. It makes great salad cucumber substitute. Great "Cole slaw", and cooked and canned it's a great sweet pickle or brined. It's healthy too. When I add it to garden salad, I leave a lot more melon on it before I shred it! Quince makes better jelly than Osage orange.
Watermelon rind/seeds are on my to do list for episodes to do.
my mother cuts out light green part of watetmelen ring an make preserves out of them jus as you would a peach!! there good not as good as peach or figs but guess anything good with enuff sugar!! lol
I peel off the dark green skin and shop up the light green rind into blocks, boil them with a small amount of water add a small amount of sugar or a pack of jelly, boil for a few minutes and you have watermelon rind jelly...spread on bread or add to ice cream, yummy!
😂😂😂If you poke the spider with the osage orange, kinda like smash them, it repells them.😂😂😂 Omg, I'm dying over here.
He's very good at subtle humor!
My gma always had one (the same one my whole life) and she swore it kept ants out of the house.. no idea tho
Brittni Wilhelm bahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahhahahaa
Brittni Wilhelm yeah we used them to keep spiders out of the house
*whispers* “Does this bother you?” *poke*
We call them hedge apples. The trees grow in hedge rows along country roads here in Oklahoma. My mom used to cut them up and used them to repel insects in our house.
Hedge apples make cows milk bitter..so my grandfather said.... who had dairy cows...and he kept the cattle away from the trees. We used the wood from the trees to make fence posts. We picked up the hedge apples in the fall and painted them gold or silver, cored them out a bit and stuck candles in them for table decorations. We used them for target practice too.
Question: Is this guy still alive? I would never eat a hedge apple or the seeds.
After eating the seeds I was alive, just with plenty of time wasted
Happy to know you are ok. :)
Interesting about this fruit being desirable to ancient mammals! Cause its the same for the Avocado! :D The Avocado's pit was designed to go unharmed through mammoth digestive systems. And was likely going to go extinct but early humans found their fatty grassy flavor and texture delicious! So we took over cultivating and spreading the seed of the Avocado! :) So I guess you can say that humans don't make everything go extinct.
Giant Ground Sloths ate avocados.
Silt-Legged Horses (the ancient North American horse) ate Osage Oranges.
the Osage orange was also a trade item for the Indians of the lower Mississippi. The wood made the best bows and the plains Indians especially liked them because a very powerful and short bow was easier to use on horseback. to punch through a buffalo's hide on the run , and handle it well you needed short,fast, and power. I doubt that the fruits were used as food , maybe in famine times. the sap from the fruit was also used to waterproof the bowstring an other things.
thats very interesting, thanks for sharing
Yeh, those trees grow all over the midwest, horses and mules are the only ones I've ever seen eat those things
Vegan Nurse Practitioner yea growing up people called them horse apples and we feed them to the neighbors horses
covid-19 got me watching some wild stuff.
the seeds now are used for their oil. the oil is said to help with wrinkles.
Anyone wanting to try the seeds may want to follow the example of the squirrels and wait until spring to open the fruits. Worth a try, eh?
"O" -sage. Like Oh.
Yeah I was going to correct him on that myself.
Or Oh sawja
Yes, like the Indian tribe.
This
@@corygoff9996 Nope. "Oh Sage" is how it is pronounced. As in the Osage Indian Tribe.
Thank you for posting this. I appreciate you talking about the effort it took to get to the seeds. I also really like your tasting notes on your videos. Great stuff!
The bushy tails spread the seeds very well. The wood from Osage Orange is very hard, and great for fence posts due to the large amounts of resin.
OH sage. Lol.that spider. "Does this bother you??"
U are a man after my own heart with this fruit obsession. Im going to go ahead and subscribe
I'm in the south and we call them horse apples. But, I've found that cattle will eat them. I've seen many cows eat them and never seen any choking from them. But, I personally use them as target practice when bow shooting.
Squirrels seem to like em alright. You’ll know where they’ve been sitting in the tree because beneath will be a sticky mound of that pulp. They just hunker down and go to work- getting at the seeds, I imagine.
The wood burns almost as hot as coal
Hot enough to damage some stoves not designed to burn coal.
It's a shame to burn it. Osage orange is not only the best wood there is for bows, it also makes beautiful furniture.
James, it makes the best fence poles also. It just doesn't seem to rot in the ground at all. These fence poles will last for decades and still be strong as brand new oak.
I am propagating these in my farm now. For hedge, posts, miscellaneous tool usage, and firewood.
nathan Adkins ya get your hands on some and your set
Here in Texas we call them horse apples because the horses eat them like candy ( our horses eat them daily when they are in season )
After I graduated from college (many years ago) my first apartment was a true roach motel. At one point I tried horse apples (the local name for Osage Orange). I had chunks of the stuff all over the house. As far as I could tell, horse apples had absolutely no effect. Side note: if you happen to be a wood worker, Osage Orange wood has a very nice grain structure and is a very pretty yellow color as long as it is not exposed to sunlight (UV, I suspect) for long periods.
There is a tree on the west end of town that grows these fruits. I've been asking for years what it is. Now i know. Thanks for the info.
Can you eat them
I wonder if they could be selectively “bred”/ genetically modified/ cultivated to be an edible and palatable fruit.
Not sure.. there is a related fruit called Che that is supposed to be very tasty
I'll bet you could. but it would probably take quite a while, many years.
no No GMO.... don't fix it. It is what it is for a reason that you may not know.
@@TiempoNuevo-ew7ty so, selective breeding isn't the kind of GMO the anti-GMO people are even worried about, lol. And the "reasons" are due to adaptation to environment... i.e. you're not gonna cause an apocalypse by selectively breeding palatable osage oranges.
I mean, maybe, but some plants are more difficult than others. They've been trying to breed American Chestnuts to be resistant to Chestnut Blight while still remaining American Chestnuts for decades & haven't gotten anywhere. There is also Indian Potato (Apios Americana), which they've been trying to breed to produce an annual harvest instead of a biannual one so they can turn it into a stable food crop on & off since the 1600s, with the last attempt having been this past decade. Nothing yet on either.
But, Native Americans did breed several plants into being safe for human consumption, whether it was intentional or not. That being said, they had over 10,000 years to do it.
Horse apple was used here in Amish PA Dutch country as a natural fencing line between fields since the foliage grows very dense You can still see the remnants of these old field lines along back roads Was also used at Christmas time as the ball base to make the Mistletoe ball that young lovers would kiss under Cheers
I lived on a farm in Kansas...they were planted by the WPA during the dust bowl days, one tough tree! Dangerous 2-3"
thorns make livestock stay within bounds. Squirrels that eat the seeds, also ingest some of the sap; it makes their flesh bitter, & inedible.
I split the wood for our stove- a Monster Maul was the only thing that worked. The wood throws tons of Sparks.
Beautiful wavy grain, however. Kept us very warm, & burned a long time.
Never found a medicinal use for any part of the tree.
My Grandmother in Oklahoma had a whole line of about a dozen of these. They also had horses that had to be kept away from them. The horses loved them and would get very bad diarrhea from them to the point it could hurt them if they ate to many of them. My Grandmother paid me to pick the fruit and some native women would come and get them from her.
I’m planning a trip to Iowa next year or two, and will try to find this unusual fruit. I’ve been told the seeds offer a lot of nutrition. And you can use the fruit to make a bread like banana bread or zucchini bread
The seed that escapes at 11:56.
Came for the weird food. Stayed for the ASMR
*taps on a passionfruit*
this fruit smells good, looks good and you can put it in your home as a decoration. that's it.
This is one of the funniest videos I've ever watched. I kept laughing throughout the entire video. I love your sense of humor!
Are you serious!, those things are edible?, We usually just throw them in the water , in Texas we call them hedge apples, and we don't eat them we consider them poisonous.
Yep, edible.. but not worth the trouble. You're better off throwing them in the water.
Hi Baby if you think they are poisonous, what are you throwing them into the water for?
What part of texas? Over here east of dallas everyone calls them horse apples. Some horses love em.
yeah in san Antonio we call them horse apples
I’d always heard they were poisonous also, so I never tried any. Might try a tiny bit now, just to do it.
Thank you for the video. Lots of Osage Orange usage as hedgerows in mid-western and southern cemeteries.
While attending KU and, thus, living in Lawrence, Kansas I became acquainted with the Osage orange and never conceived of eating one. The house I rented was on the edge of an abandoned apple orchard that had been ringed with a shelter belt of Osage oranges. The most remarkable thing I retrieved from one of the trees was a complex thorn that was about a foot long and shaped like a Christmas tree with secondary thorns protruding from the main thorn at right angles in graduated lengths.
Hedgeapple wood is excellent firewood , a good night wood as it burns a long time …. and the only wood I know that can be cut and burned in a woodstove that night …. I have heated my home with a lot of hedge .
The wood is so dense, I can’t get it to burn.
I remember hitting those with a cool looking stick when I was a kid
hey, i'm from iowa! lol we call them hedge apples and we use them to keep spiders out of the basement
The way to eat them into freeze them (freezing them keeps the sticky off you) and then put the shavings in a smoothie.
You are the best! Thank you so very much for doing this. I’ve been curious about these my whole life.
They are hell on a lawnmower blade as well
I used to leave the fruit of Osage Orange out in my woods in Virginia for squirrels to eat. They'll tear apart the flesh to get to the seeds one by one, leaving a pulpy mess afterward. Something would also eat the seeds at night, and I am pretty sure the nocturnal diner was the flying squirrel, which were plentiful in the area (although most folks have no clue and never see one, since the creatures are nocturnal).
Recently, I was able to successfully get two Osage Orange seedlings started in southern Minnesota, zone 4b/5a. I obtained fruit from near Winterset, Iowa (south of Des Moines) where Osage Orange are plentiful, in Fall 2015 (you can also purchase live seedlings cheaply on eBay - I did that and all 3 I bought survived and prospered). I cut up the fruit and stomped several chunks into the dirt. Did not tend to them further. The seedlings came up in late spring, and made it to near 15 inches by Fall 2016. Really looking forward to seeing how they make it through the winter and how they do in 2017. Supposedly the species is hardy into zone 4, but I've never seen one in Minnesota or northern Iowa.
Ha seems like they are taking pretty well if thats all you had to do. Good luck!
You Tuber How is it going?
Please come back and tell us how your seedlings survived! I know I will never see one up here (the other end of MN), but could hope...
I've lived in Virginia, in Pennsylvania and in Texas (three different times) and never seen an Osage Orange in person, so weird. I was asking about them so a friend in Missouri was kind enough to mail me some. They're unusual looking not very fragrant, I read that they don't keep bugs away so I used then as a purely decorative item and when they started to disintegrate I put them out for the squirrels to eat.
If you look at the map on Tree of the Day it shows them existing way up in Canada. I would love to start one on my acreage in Decorah, Iowa.
Mule deer here in New Mexico seem to like it, I have a tree that drops hundreds of them each year. I read somewhere that pioneers put them in clothing in storage to keep bugs and moths out. They have a very strong wood used for making hunting bows.
That supposed fruit is from the Bodock tree. We had two on our property when I was growing up and we assuredly did not eat them. We used to use the fruit as items we threw at each other while playing war in the back yard. That white stuff is Laytex, the same you see in Jack Fruit, Plumeria, and other types of edible and inedible trees and fruits. The tree itself has one of the hardest woods on the planet other than Lignum Vitae which was so hard they could use it as main shaft bushings in the WW-II Century ships. While his video title says, "How to eat an Osage Orange", we do not advise anyone to eat it.
you can eat the seeds if you roast them, not the fruit
I found this very interesting. We used to have an Orange Osage down the street. Every year it drop hundreds of of apples their yard. They would be all up & down the sidewalks and in the road. Cars would hit them and they would pile up along side the road. I would take some home and cut them up so as to place chunks of them around our basement. We had a very old house with lots of spiders, ants and other vermin (but no roaches!). I don't know if they did any good, but they were free and all natural, so I did not care. I never considered eating them. I will have to try that some time! BTW, the wood of the tree is supposed to be one of the best woods for making a long bow... that was my brother's hobby at the time.
Horse apples also help cure Lynks disease
well now this is a reference I wasn't expecting.
I heard certain types of Cancer as well.
Fun fact: Osage Orange provided the olive drab color used in WWI uniforms. Before then, it was used for fenceposts because the wood wouldn't rot in the ground. And even before that, it was extraordinarily valuable as bow wood. Native Americans would trade animals for a stick of this wood, and now we find them a nuisance.
I didn't know that, very interesting!
We had a horse ranch for 30 years. Some of the horses loved the balls and some didn't. I noticed the ones that ate them had a real technique to eat them. Stood directly over the ball and bit down. Never seemed to hurt them.
Subscribing, considering I have watched a 4 or 5 of your videos now. Each one was a video on an exotic fruit that I had never heard of. I was totally intrigued, because of how you present each fruit and the lengths you go to explain everything you can about them. I live in Ohio, a little bit due east of Cincinnati, and have been around hedge apples all my life. It wasnt until maybe 15 years ago that I figured out that hedge apples came from Osage orange. I have always thought they would give you stomach trouble if you ate them, just like crab apples do. I have smashed them for fun, I have made paint with them, use them as a target, used them as a weapon, but I have never eaten more than the tiniest bit. Probably the same amount you ate. The bitterness to me seems like it was the part that would make your stomach upset. Anyway, great video.
Crab apples dont give you stomach aches. I used to eat the hell out of them. No ailments at all. Another NWO lie!!
Crab apples give me the unholy shits. Doesn't mean they are poisonous, just that my gut dont like them. One bite dont hurt, but 3 or 4 of those miniatures upsets everything. One this reigns true though, salt does help prevent multiple trips across the house.
Did ya hear they are bitching at elon musk?
“I’m not sure how much, sooo *that* much.”
😂
strikes that one the off the?: [ "try this obscure fruit from the cretaceous" ]: buck list lol - thank you for your service
Its not from the creatacious dumbass its from centozoic
I’m 67, when I was elementary age, we would see these laying around on the ground along the path we walked through going to school, which included a student family residential area of the university of Arkansas. They were sticking for sure. We knew them as Horse Apples.
we here in Kansas where they grow and I see cattle and horses eat them constantly they do work as a wormer
PS never heard of one chocking
A wormer for humans? Or cattle? We always thought they were poisonous but always seen squirrels eating them!
I heard it was good for horses to treat Colic.
When I was a misguided teenager my friend and I would fill the passenger side floor of a car with Osage oranges and drive around hurling them at mailboxes! It was great fun, but needless to say, this was anti-social behavior and I'm sorry for my sin!
Lmao...✊🏾
@@godstrueelect4625 At least someone got a laugh out of that story!
@Not Sure I thought you would say you're "Not Sure". Perhaps you should consider changing your handle to, "I Didn't Realise"
biketothetop - So YOU'RE the one!
@@stevek5416 I could ve the one...
They have them in Virginia too. We called them O/sage orange.
Osage like the indian tribe I always thought.
My mother's garden club would slice them crosswise (yes, they have sticky milk in them) dry the slices in a low oven. Then they would use them as part of autumn wreaths with nuts, pine and hemlock cones and other dried pods and stuff.
They looked like flowers and where rather attractive.
Other than that, they are fun to throw.
I’m not sure if you consider yourself as a nerd/loner, but I love nerdy people. Most nerdy individuals are mostly to themselves. Which you seem to be that way and it’s nothing wrong with that. You guys are very intelligent as well! You have a friend here on the a East side! ☺️🌈✝️🌤💖🐑⛺️🌱
The one you have is unripe. They are orange when they ripen in the late fall. Might taste better then. There's a tree of them in Jonesborough, TN downtown.
Neat video. Thanks for going through all that trouble for us. I wonder if getting the seeds would be easier if you let the fruit age/dry a bit. I would also like to see what would happen if you put them in a hot air popcorn popper!
There is an Osage tree down the road from me. The only one I have ever seen, I live in upstate NY..They become a real mess when the fruit fall from the trees..Cars run over them and it is a greenish mess. I find it to be a fascinating tree. I wouldn't want one in my yard.
I previously watched this when I first started following your channel. Rewatching it now and I totally forgot about your comments of poking a spider or smashing it with the fruit being effective. It’s totally cracking me up!
Very cool! I've always wondered about those. I liked your scientific test of the spider repellent effects, haha. :D
YOU CAN EAT THOSE?! I had heard rumors... but no way... there's a few planted on my campus. Apparently they can grow justabout anywhere.
edit: I would have looked up how to roast pumpkin seeds and followed those directions... think they use butter. But still really neat exercise, I'll see if I can catch one of the planty-science profs and convince them to have their students do it or something lol
Thankyou! I've seen these a lot and been curious.
This was the video I found your channel with..it's been a great couple of years my friend (who is friend to unnamed thousands across the world) . It still holds up four years later
So glad to hear that :)
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I made a pipe out of some osage orange. Im about to nusery some trees soon . I do love the finish of this wood in projects.
at least these trees are good for something!
I’m camping in Oklahoma National forest and surrounded by these trees . I was curious as to what they were and found your page. Thank you so much for the extensive research and demonstration. You thoroughly answered my question
Osage ("oh-sage") apple tree is also called Bois D'arc, which is French for "wood of the bow", because it was used by indigenous Americans for making superior archery bows.
Thanks for going through all that. Never knew those damn things were edible. It looks like a lot of effort. My father also did wood-carvings out of the tree, The woods was almost a bright yellow when he first finished it. It has since darkened to a more orange color. Very pretty wood.
I'm glad to have found this video (by accident.) A forester brought a couple of osage oranges to my place of work several years ago and I have wondered about them since then. He also said they were basically useless. I enjoyed your video! How difficult was it to wash that white sticky mess off of everything? It looked awful.
Glad to be of help! They are mostly useless, but can kill some time on a rainy day. Cleaning the knife was the biggest pain, but the gunk does get off if you keep at it.
Im a wood worker, and osage orange is a really cool wood to work with, when you cut it, the wood is a really bright orange and as the oils in the wood oxidize it will become more and more brown over the course of a very weeks