Tree identity?

[Tx Trapper]

What is the correct name of the trees with the large green apple like fruit with the knobs all over that nothing seems to eat?

[Kevin Smith]

Bois d'arc

[Fishndude]

Bois D' arc maybe?

[Dushon]

Bodark

[gmac]

Bois d'arc

^Exactly. Also called Horseapple. Maclura pomifera is scientific name.

[Razorback01]

Deer eat the leaves, squirrels etc eat the fruit.

[Tx Trapper]

That's it! Thanks

[jetlag887]

Yep, correct above. Make great fence post but are hard to drive a fence staple into, and a chainsaw will throw sparks when cutting them. That wood is as hard as Woodpecker lips!

[Gbird]

Yep, correct above. Make great fence post but are hard to drive a fence staple into, and a chainsaw will throw sparks when cutting them. That wood is as hard as Woodpecker lips!

Woodpecker lips!! That's funny right there!

[thomason]

Crappie love these branches, remove all the leaves and bait out a crappie hole with a bunch of these branches on the side of a ledge and let the crappie come in. Nothing else works this well for baiting out a crappie hole. Do not know why but they love them.

Bois d'arc

[jruss]

Bois D'Arc didn't the name come from the Spanish because the natives used the limbs for bows? Thought I read that somewhere.

[oktx]

Osage Orange

[dhays]

Bodark in the South, Hedge up North.

[Terrychester]

Bois D'arc, horse Apple, there are other names. The wood is a very hard wood.

[boomerball]

Bois D'Arc didn't the name come from the Spanish because the natives used the limbs for bows? Thought I read that somewhere.

Yes, but it is french

Bois -> wood
Arc -> bow