HedgeappleFruit.com - Biggest Hedgeapple Tree
The focal point of the grounds at Red Hill is the largest and oldest Osage Orange Tree in America. It has a span of ninety feet and stands fifty-four feet high.
Estimated to be 350 to 400 years old, the tree is listed in the American Forestry Hall of Fame, is a Virginia State Champion, and is a National Champion.
Named after the Osage Indians who used the wood for bows, the Osage Orange produces large, green inedible fruit, commonly called "mock oranges" or hedge apples."
Recent Guestbook Entries
i want to save the hedge apple tree but can't risk the apples hitting someone or damaging cars in the parking lot. Can I stop the tree from fruiting?
- MJ
Just learned so much information from your site.While working around Chattanooga, Tn. I found these odd lookingballs on Lookout Mountain and picked up some just because they were soodd. For 3 weeks I've been trying to find out what they were.I went to a Flea Market in Pickens,SC Wendesday and a ladyhad some for sale. She gave me the only information she knewand called them osage oranges. I came straight home, put this in searchand found your site. Thanks for such a load of information.
- David
Recent Survey Entries
Name: Diane
State: MD
Years used: 1
How many used: 12
Obtained: Other
Places where used: Basement= laundry room, family room and bathroom, Main Floor= kitchen (as decoration), formal living room in a decorative bowl, and one in each bedroom
Pest After: Huge, evil-looking spiders
Reduction Percentage:
Spiders: 100% Reduction
Cockroaches: Not Sure
Ants: 100% Reduction
Slugs: Not Sure
Crickets: Not Sure
Fleas: Not Sure
Date Obtained: September
Any initial activity? No
Started Working?: One Day
Duration of Effect: Two Months
How widespread: Widespread, throughout the house
Place them on a container? Never
General Comments: Incredible! We had huge spiders everywhere and the exterminator charged us an indecent amount to use "pet-friendly" spray. Apparently, it was friendly to spiders, too, because it didn't stop them. But after the first DAY of using hedgeapples- GONE!!! We haven't seen one since. It's been almost two months without one single spotting. I'm desperately seeking more hedgeapples!!! (And they also looked nice in arrangements so they fit in to the rooms, too.).
Did They Work: Yes
Name: Brian
State: KS
Years used: 1
How many used: 10-12
Obtained: Picked your own
Places where used: In each bedroom, under the bed, in butter tubs. Closets. Basement, near the bottom of stairs. Near floor drains.
Pest After: spiders....really big ones.
Reduction Percentage:
Spiders: 100% Reduction
Cockroaches: Not Sure
Ants: Not Sure
Slugs: Not Sure
Crickets: Not Sure
Fleas: Not Sure
Date Obtained: September
Any initial activity? Not Sure
Started Working?: One Week
Duration of Effect: Three Months
How widespread: Widespread, throughout the house
Place them on a container? Most of the time
General Comments: I was pretty amazed. Within 2 weeks, we quit seeing spiders. We had just built & moved into our new home in July. Bugs in the Mid West love the weather. New home...house open...many trees in back of the house...we were going to have bugs, no matter what. But, the wolf spiders were just huge last year! And by the time we'd settled in & the spiders had found new places to hide, we started seeing 2 or 3 a day in the house, outside, etc. One night we saw one scitter across the driveway & it looked like a small cat! Then one night, my then 8 months along pregnant wife put on her house slippers & thought she felt a rubber band in the toe of a slipper...she kicked it off & out crawls a wolf spider the size of a Miracle Whip lid! We were nearly parents for the 3rd time, right there in the living room. ...I found hedgeapple.com....noticed that our tree line is an old hedge-row...found some hedgeballs & placed them in the bedrooms, basement & closets. Within 2 weeks, we stopped seeing them completely. Saw a drop in the first week. Our problem is that the hedgeapples are "ripe" in the late Summer & I have no apples for the early Spring, which is almost here. At any rate...use hedgeapples for spiders. They really do work. I don't know about any other bugs because spiders are all we saw. I'd say you could smash a roach WITH a hedgeapple if you had to....
Did They Work: Yes