Long article, but the writer never says what the Osage Orange tastes like.
The Osage Orange trees of the north Texas area bear large wrinlkly fruits once favored by wooly mammoths, although now considered mostly a nuisance as they can cause choking in horses.
The wood of this tree is tough, rot resistant and flexible, and was historically traded by the Osage tribe as the preffered wood for bow making, wagon wheels and other uses.
The Osage Orange trees of the north Texas area bear large wrinlkly fruits once favored by wooly mammoths, although now considered mostly a nuisance as they can cause choking in horses.
The wood of this tree is tough, rot resistant and flexible, and was historically traded by the Osage tribe as the preffered wood for bow making, wagon wheels and other uses.
Long article, but the writer never says what the Osage Orange tastes like.
This may interest you then: https://youtu.be/40U8F8ZD9f0
This guy eats strange fruits and describes them. He eats a slice at the 6:00 minute mark and says it tastes like watermelon rind.
This may interest you then:
https://youtu.be/40U8F8ZD9f0
This guy eats strange fruits and describes them. He eats a slice at the 6:00 minute mark and says it tastes like watermelon rind.
Yup, they used it as barbed wire here in the north east. Aside from fence posts and such they made mallets out of it. Dirty tree, hard wood.
Yup, they used it as barbed wire here in the north east. Aside from fence posts and such they made mallets out of it. Dirty tree, hard wood.
bois d'arc (bow wood)
bois d'arc (bow wood)
Yep I’m making one out of it now. It’s pretty expensive these days
Yep I’m making one out of it now. It’s pretty expensive these days
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