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Updated: Feb 4, 2023

We find these things that look like large tennis balls. Can anybody tell us what this is?

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threadbearok
Aug 10, 2022

Horse apples or Osage orange, from the bois d’arc tree.

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Scott Dontanville
Scott Dontanville
Aug 09, 2022

What a weird name when it is green.

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Aimee Kruger
Aimee Kruger
Aug 09, 2022

I agree, looks like an Osage orange tree’s fruit. Also called hedge apples (as Cindy already mentioned), monkey balls, and monkey brains. I hear they don’t taste good, unfortunately.

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Cindy McFadden
Cindy McFadden
Aug 09, 2022

I think it is an Osage Orange. They are also called a hedge apple.

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