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rombsix

Posts: 7808
Joined: Jan. 11 2006
From: Beirut, Lebanon

Identify this fruit...

I keep seeing these in Nashville, but I have no idea what they are. Can anyone help? I'm just curious...

Cheers!

I have photos of the tree they come from too, if that is needed to make the ID.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 22 2012 3:08:58

kudo

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Joined: Sep. 3 2009

RE: Identify this fruit... (in reply to rombsix)

some kind of non-eatable fruits? there are some stuff like that around here too that cant be eaten, which i never bothered to know what they are called

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 22 2012 3:34:23

rombsix

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From: Beirut, Lebanon

RE: Identify this fruit... (in reply to kudo)

quote:

some kind of non-eatable fruits? there are some stuff like that around here too that cant be eaten, which i never bothered to know what they are called

Kbeer.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 22 2012 4:34:59

Mordorito

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Joined: Aug. 11 2012
From: Delaware, USA

RE: Identify this fruit... (in reply to rombsix)

I am pretty sure it is the fruit from the Osage Orange tree. We call them "monkey balls" up here in Delaware, but this may just be slang...

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 22 2012 16:41:36

Mordorito

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Joined: Aug. 11 2012
From: Delaware, USA

RE: Identify this fruit... (in reply to Mordorito)

...well,"monkey balls" has got to be slang. I am just not sure if it is only a regional slang term.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 22 2012 16:46:02

keith

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Joined: Sep. 29 2009
From: Back in Boston

RE: Identify this fruit... (in reply to rombsix)

rombsix--as mordorito pointed out, it is the fruit (if you will) of the osage orange tree. the "fruit" is also called hedge apples. the trees have an interesting place in american history and science. during the early 20th century folks in the lower midwest and upper south often wrecked havoc on the environment and hedge apple trees (osage orange) were planted to help with erosion problems. the other and more famous plant to be used to combat erosion is kudzu. i suspect you have seen kudzu by now. interestingly, one man made thing that can be seen from outer space is the area around ducktown tennessee--it looks orange as that area was strip-mined to death. major kudzu problem over in that neck of the woods as well.

as to the science angle. when i lived in north carolina (near bryson city in the smokies--i worked in the ducktown area and northern georgia areas as well) i heard of locals using the fruit to ward off spiders and such. recently it was discovered the fruit is an effective mosquito repellant--better than avon's skin-so-soft and close to, if not equal, to DEET (DDT probably still ranks number one but some major issues with that stuff).

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 22 2012 17:08:40