Everybody I know calls them monkey balls, what are they really? They're about the size of a baseball and lime green with grooves like a brain. I work with children and would love to tell them what they really are.
2006-11-05 04:28:19 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
hedge apples
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2006-11-05 04:31:59 · answer #1 · answered by Aaron A 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They come off of an Osage orange tree and are call a hedge apple. The trees commonly were planted as a fence since the tree has thornes on it.
2006-11-05 04:42:59 · answer #2 · answered by rosie 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The tree is an Osage Orange, the "balls" are called "Hedge Apples"....They are very milky inside, I slice them and dry them to use in dried arrangements....They are 'sposed to keep crickets out of basements when you put them around.....the wood of the tree is super hard and was used for fence posts because they would last for years.
2006-11-05 04:40:50 · answer #3 · answered by Boopsie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hedge apples from an osage orange tree. Has milk inside them.
2006-11-05 06:07:43 · answer #4 · answered by RockyTFS 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hedge apples. It's an osage orange tree. People put them in houses to keep spiders out.
2006-11-05 04:37:27 · answer #5 · answered by honey 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Horse apples
2014-08-28 15:07:55 · answer #6 · answered by Gail 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Texas, they come from the Bois'D'Arc tree. We call them "Horse Apples".
2006-11-05 04:31:56 · answer #7 · answered by bugear001 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sweet1 they are hedge apples and they grow wild in middle tennessee. if you live near gallatin you can find lots of them and i do not know of any useful purpose they serve.
2006-11-05 04:38:13 · answer #8 · answered by roy40372 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I opened one and it stained my hand
2013-08-18 01:12:43 · answer #9 · answered by Michelle 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋