Talk:Maclura pomifera

message: Hi I live in Hamilton, Ontario.  I have 5 of these trees on my front lawn.  People come from all over in October to collect the fruit.  It is ususally the same people back every year. They take the fruit away in bag fulls and use them for decorations.  The teachers take them to school for the children to paint and make things out of them.  Would you know if there are more trees around in my area and how would they have gotten here in the first place. Thanks for you information on the trees.  Jean
: We had them all over Centerville, Ohio as well. --67.8.217.155 (talk) 19:55, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  osage orange 

message: It appears no one is currently taking care of this page. The references and links had been deleted by a vandal in March and were still missing. The written material was all over the place. Questions on this page have largely gone unanswered for a while. I readded the ref's and links to the main page and copyedited and organized all the info into some semblance of coherence. Hope this is helpful. Best wishes. --MarkBuckles 00:25, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Revamp

message: Just to clarify:  cattle do eat the fruit (I saw a cow eat one the other day).  I'm not sure about pigs or sheep, but I would bet pigs do since they will eat anything.  Dukemeiser 23:39, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cattle 

message: The height of "8-15 m" mentioned in the intro is a lot shorter than the "40 to 60 ft" given farther down. Also, the distributions (under "Distribution" and the other that was given under "History") did not jibe. I have moved both sentences on distribution under Distribution, where they can now contradict each other in proximity.--BillFlis (talk) 10:55, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: To alleviate the discrepancies in range and occurrence pointed out above, I have re-written the distribution section based on the best source I found available  and have added a range map from that source. Pinethicket (talk) 00:01, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Contradiction remains. Victor Engel (talk) 21:04, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Contradictions

message: "4-5 trees of this unusual trees growing in town of Dakovo, Croatia, Europe. Mystery is that nobody knows when it was planted and by who."
Someone please fix these sentences  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.249.202.200 (talk) 02:59, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: What?

message: "In other parts of the country (ranging from Long Island to as far west as Western Pennsylvania), the fruit is referred to as "Monkey Balls" (origin uncertain)."
I grew up in greater Cleveland, and at the end of my street was one of these trees.  We called the fruit "Monkey Balls" so I would suggest modifying the geographical range's western boundary to "Northeastern Ohio."  As to the origin of the term - I have no idea.  That's just what we called it!
Tom Georges (talk) 18:39, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Colloquial Terms

message: I've seen beautiful lawn furniture made of hedge wood - exactly once!  Seems rarely used in woodworking.  I am thinking of researching this topic for reliable references and adding a new section to this article. If other editors have seen good references, please list them here and we can collaborate on this section.  I might be able to get a good picture of the one set of lawn furniture that I saw locally.Bridgetttttttebabblepoop 10:59, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Furniture 

message: There is a osage tree on the old Doodletown Road that is part of the 1776 trail in Bear Mtn state park.  On a cub scout trip for Pelham Pack 1, we picked up the fruit and had it identified from a botanist at the Bronx Zoo.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fearless098 (talk • contribs) 20:25, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  osage tree in Rockland County 

message: I've read that osage orange is among the best bow woods in numerous places. It might be worth adding.66.56.226.142 (talk) 02:17, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I know two  traditional bow makers in Oklahoma that  use wood from  the Bois D'arc tree exclusively, hint: that's French  and it means "bow wood" that's literally the common name for the tree in this area, along with  Osage orange and hedge apple, most people you talk to  will know which  tree you mean  regardless of which  name you use.  Point is, one of those names literally means "bow wood". There should be an entire section of this article relating to that and the reasoning behind that, as it is the main traditional usage of the tree. 75.88.34.188 (talk) 06:20, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bow wood 

message: The range map is highly misleading-- they're all over the landscape here in northern Ohio.  The text itself says that they are found in many places not shown in the map.  The text also mentions them as being used for bows by the Osage Nation-- that is odd, since the Osage don't live anywhere near the area indicted. Geoffrey.landis (talk) 02:12, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Range map is misleading 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The article suggests that the wood from the Osage Orange tree is suitable for use as fence posts, however there should be some additional explanation or expansion on this front.  For example, it is well known that one can use even an old bodark fence post to hang a pipe rail gate from.  Indeed, the posts can withstand such torsional stress as may even survive tornadic activity, or even such severe environments as storms featuring twin tornados, if Choctaw sources are to be believed. 147.129.191.69 (talk) 00:43, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fenceposts 

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