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Fruit of osage orange trees
Does anyone else call these hedge apples/hedge balls? I didn't realize they were from osage orange trees until a year or two ago.
seed pods from sweet gum trees
Which are known in my house as "ding-dong balls," because my mom has a goofy nickname for everything you can think of. (Honestly, though, they should just be called "You Will Break Your Ankle, Puny Mammal."
Some sort of maple-y tree? It also drops leaves late, which is a pisser. I'm mid Atlantic, remember.
Google indicates sweetgum.
I hate them. And their helicopter flowers. Pretty tree when they aren't bad neighbors, though.
Google indicates sweetgum.
Ding-dong balls!
Probably sweet gum [link]
Five-pointed leaves, great Fall colors, seed pods are a nuisance. The pods burn well, but not hot enough to make good firestarters.
I managed to cook a couple of more or less perfect hard boiled eggs to go in my ramen and salad tonight; came out of the shells without tearing, and the yolks were neither rubbery nor coated with that slimy greenish patina.
We always called those gumballs.
Sorry about your BiL's diagnosis, Bev.
Gumballs here too. Or alternately, "ouch wtf did I just step on".
We called them stickerballs.. Osage oranges were sometimes called horse apples.
I had to google Osage oranges. I don't think I've ever seen one.