Hello all! Happy Saturday and Happy December! Amazing to think we’re only a month away from a new year!
I was on a hike recently, at a park in Missouri and noticed these dense, larger-than-a-baseball “balls” on the forest floor. There were several on the ground in varying sizes. They were very heavy and reminded me of a brain.
Check them out.
Do you know what they are? Any guesses?
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Have a great weekend! Do make some time soon to get outside and enjoy the peace and beauty of nature. December is a crazy month that seems to fly by every year–Don’t forget to make some time for YOU.
Hedge Apples or (I looked this up) Osage Orange. People in farm country would keep them scattered around their stairways and basements to supposedly deter spiders and other bugs. We used to see the trees sometimes back when the farms still had fence-rows.
Jock, thanks for writing! I did not know all of that. I simply know them as Osage Oranges but it is always fun to hear some firsthand information from people who know. I will have to look into the idea of them deterring spiders and bugs. It will be interesting to see if there really is something to this or if it just is myth like so many other things we hear about nature. I will add your name to the drawing pool!
I suppose if you dropped one on a spider …
osage orange..but looks like someone else already guessed the correct answer
It’s okay! Thanks for reading and guessing.
They were surprisingly heavy. I’ve heard of the plant but had never seen their brains before