The Osage Orange

This Fall, my friends and I went to a local park and we found a kind of fruit that was really strange looking. We didn't know what it was called. It looked like a brain. So, I brought one home and I search the internet and found the answer. This is called an osage orange. It was names after the Osage Indians. The wood from the trees is strong and bendable, so it is good for making bows and arrows. People also planted the osage trees around the outside of their farms, because the tree has spikes, kind of like barbed wired. If you touch it, you'll say OW!