Osage orange or hedge Apple or just good eats

[Reagan]

The tapa app has me reviewing old pictures. This was taken at Dad's place two years ago. He has a lot of these trees and that year the fruit was a bumper crop. Deer love to browse the leaves and when the fruit is heavy, new chow gets exposed when the limbs bend down.

The fruit is definitely not eaten like a good mast crop. They can lay around for a long time. But I have seen many different deer eat them.


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[j-bird]

I see the fruit mostly eaten by "critters" in general and not very much. I have a bunch of this stuff on my place. The only real time I see them eaten is in the winter when food is much harder to find and it doesn't appear to be by deer either. All-in-all it's pretty worthless stuff in my opinion so of course my place has lots of it!

Sometimes I think if it wasn't for cottonwood, sycamore, hedge apple, boxelder and buckeye I wouldn't have any woods! That's a list of some prime timber CRAP right there!!!!

 

[Catscratch]

We have tons of hedge and the leaves are browsed very heavily by both deer and cattle. In my experience these are the first trees to show a visible "browse line". I think they are even browsed more heavily than mulberry.