Follow-up on that funny looking fruit on the ground in
Answers from several people with mid-western roots. Osage Orange. Hedge Apple. Commonly planted in prairie states as a windbreak hedge. It grows fast and thick and has thorns. It was used as a cattle fence before barbed wire.
The wood is heavy and close grained. It was used to produce bows (for bows and arrows). It burns super hot. It makes good fence posts.
The fruit is inedible. (Actually, you *can* eat it, but it will probably make you vomit.) It has a white milky juice inside. People put them in their basements to deter spiders and mice.
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