New axe handle carved from osage orange tree.

I cut down one of the osage orange trees...
I grew from fruit found beside the street...
Carved it into axe handle...
#maclura #hedgeapple #osageorange #nativeplants

An Osage Orange fruit - yellowish green: "The mature multiple fruit's size and general appearance resembles a large, yellow-green orange (the fruit), about 10 to 13 cm (4–5 in) in diameter, with a roughened and tuberculated surface." Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maclura_pomifera

VIENNA AT CHRISTMASTIME
On the Way to the Christmas Market
I Spotted an Osage Orange Fruit *
Behind City Hall, Friedrich-Schmidt-Platz
Image © Merisi Vienna
#EastCoastKin #Photography
#OsageOrange #HedgeApple #MonkeyBall

* see "Distribution" @:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maclura...

What do y’all call these where you’re from? #horseapple #osageorange #applepicking #hedgeapple #bodark #boisdarc