Does anyone have any ideas for Hedge Apples? I picked a bunch from some trees in the country. I've heard they will repel spiders. Any craft ideas? Are they poisonous? Excited to find out.
Thanks!
Sharon from Stockham, NE
Also known as OSAGE ORANGE. (10/13/2008)
By Diana
I love the color and texture of hedge apples and want a few to put in a bowl or basket for decoration. I didn't know deer fed on them - that's a new one, but I knew they rot. (10/13/2008)
I've learned at the University of Washington Burke Museum site and elsewhere, that neither osage orange nor horse chestnuts can 'repel' spiders, which have no sense of smell anyway. The spiders in houses were nearly all born there. (10/13/2008)
By P
They are really not good for much of anything. They are inedible for humans. Not poisonous, but so fibrous that they can clog the throat and cause choking. The "juice" is irritating to the skin of some people and can cause burning and itching.
I tried slicing some and drying them in the oven for using in natural dried flower arrangements. I have to agree it is not worth the trouble. On the other hand, I like the bright green color and interesting texture. To maybe put in a bright orange bowl for a temporary, unusual centerpiece. (10/13/2008)
Well, they've always helped keep the spider population in my house almost non-existent. When we moved in, over three years ago, I had constantly battled daddy-long legs in the basement. After three years of placing hedge apples around the basement every fall, I rarely see a spider. They work for me! (10/14/2008)
They do repel spiders BUT when they start turning brown you need to throw them away because they start smelling worse than a skunk spraying. (10/14/2008)
By carolcoen
I know the wood from the tree is sometimes used in making bows. (10/22/2008)
By Barb
This will come as a major surprise to the medical community, but I have personal knowledge that the hedge-apple is an alternative cancer treatment. I personally know 3 people who are now cancer free after using 1 teaspoon per day for only 1 month. It isn't poisonous. In my opinion, it's a miracle from GOD. (11/07/2008)
By Judy M.
I just heard about them stopping cancer, too. A friend personally knows 3 people who had 3 different types of cancer - all cured. One was skin cancer so they rubbed the hedge apple on their skin. And yes, they make excellent bows. My father has carved many, many bows from the wood. He calls them bowdark trees. (12/14/2008)
By anne
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When people have taken hedge apples for cancer, did they eat the flesh? cook it? eat it raw? eat only the seeds? How much at a time?
It's easier to fool somebody than it is to convince them that they have been fooled. All that nonsense about a cancer cure, and someone's grandpa making bows from the tree, is a just clickbait.
My Grandfather, was a Chickasaw, Native American. I use to watch him make his own Bow, for Fishing.from a Bowdark, tree!!
We had the Bowdark, trees on our land ,in South Eastern, Oklahoma.
I thought they were called Bodock , but I could certainly be wrong.
yes, I have used hedge apples and so has my sister for fighting cancer -- me uterine, ovarian and cervical - my sister cervical and breast cancer and as of now we are cancer free --- if I get a CT scan or Pet scan that says my cancer has come back -- I will be back to eating my one Table spoon of hedge apples once again. I told my doctors that I was eating this also - they didn't approve but did not tell me that I couldn't eat it.
You can see hedge apples in bowls as decor in your house( in magazines). They have an amazing fragrance, just fantastic! until they start getting old, start getting moldy then you throw them out. Older friends told me to throw a few in your crawl space, or put a bowl of them in your cellar, to repel spiders in your house.
We cut them up and put in Mason jars with alcohol... good for bee stings, sun burn
I use them for spider repellent. I either make a tin foil "cup" or use a canning jar lid to set them in - they will end up making a mess on the floor otherwise. I put them in out-of-the way corners because my cats think they are soccer balls! LOL
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