Question about type of fruit tree.

[agross]

This really has nothing to do with New York but didnt kwow where else to post.

I have been watching hunting shows and noticed (now that i am more interested in food plots etc) that on a couple of the shows in Iowa, Kansas etc a type of fruit tree is catching my attention. Most of the time its on the edge of fields on these shows. Cant really describe tree other than apple shape but it appears to have tennis ball looking type of fruit, tennis ball light green, but maybe a little larger.

Anyone know what this maybe???

[Rev Ev]

Perhaps its Osage Orange? Do they look like little "brains"?

Edited September 12, 2012 by Rev Ev

[agross]

never saw up close but looks like it size and color. do deer eat those things

[growalot]

if you Google some will say no...and cows and horses have been known to choke to death on them...squirrels like them....but if you see any thing from the hunters that hunt around them ...they say yes...not preferred food but they will eat them....What they are used for are long/recurve bow wood and sought out for that and turnings ...and they are very common out west because they were the fencing used before barbed wire...they were grown around field edges to keep live stock in...they are very fast growing with nasty hard thorns..

[agross]

GReat info thanks.

[landtracdeerhunter]

Tried to start some from root stock unsuccessfully. Wouldn't think they would be to different from any other tree. Next year, going to try manure, peat moss; under the roots.