OT - Help Me Identify A Fruit / Something

 Can you help me identify this thing?

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Joe in Northern, NJ  -  V#8013-R

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  wrote:


Of course...it is an osage orange.

http://www.stillmannc.org/Articles/Article--Osage_Orange.htm

Boron

 
It kinda looks like a puffball.
If it is, it's not "ripe" yet.
When I was a kid, we would find them in the woods and toss them
up and whack them with a baseball bat.

Makes a neat puff of pollen.

Don

 

OSAGE ORANGE  AKA Hedge Apple AKA Monkey Balls

 
Joe wrote:

I didn't have to click on the picture to know that you were referring
to the over-the-top weird-looking osage orange. OK, I clicked anyway.
Yep, as the other lister says, that's an osage orange. They are among
my fondest Halloween memories, as they fall on the ground just in time
for trick or treating. We called them monkey brains, a term that still
enjoys popularity among our nation's youth. Another link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osage-orange