Tree Identification

[Firpo]

Roger that @OkieJoe72 ”Bodark Tree” it is. I’m thinking the green fruit could make a fairly decent projectile shot out of a potato cannon.

 

[Bocephus123]

Osage Orange is my favorite name for them.

 

[JEVapa]

Roger that @OkieJoe72 ”Bodark Tree” it is. I’m thinking the green fruit could make a fairly decent projectile shot out of a potato cannon.

Spelled Bois D'arc, pronounced Bo dark. Like @OkieJoe72 says, nobody round here calls them anything else. lol

IDK about your horse apple tater-gun plans...sounds like it might not work out well

 

[Chief Sapulpa]

Bois D'arc is French meaning bow wood or wood of the bow.

 

[Bocephus123]

They have had 3 different names my whole life ive been in oklahoma 60 years

Bois D'arc
Hedge Apple ( old man that taught me to deer hunt name for them)
Osage Orange ( may have come from the Indians not sure )

Im sure there is a scientific name also

 

[rickm]

I have lived here my entire (67 years) life and has always called them Bo Dark, but after attending school and got just alittle smarter learned they was either Bois D'arc or Osage orange but i still call the Bo Dark

 

[JEVapa]

I have lived here my entire (67 years) life and has always called them Bo Dark, but after attending school and got just alittle smarter learned they was either Bois D'arc or Osage orange but i still call the Bo Dark

Bo Dark is how you pronounce Bois D'arc without the French whizzery on it.

 

[undeg01]

Boris D’arc. Very hard, yellow wood. Makes great fence posts that take forever to rot. Also makes nice knife handles.

 

[2busy]

Thank you @Hirschkopf, I really appreciate the info!

I thought horse apples were what came out of the hind end of a horse. Wait, those are road apples.

Thems horse muffins, get um while there hot.

 

[WoodsCraft]

Horse Apples