Monkey Brain Tree

When i was a kid growing up in iowa my family often traveled from our small town to the farm of a relative for thanksgiving dinner.

Monkey brain tree. Back when i was a little kid living in new jersey my cousin and i used to collect theses things from under the trees they grew on and have battles throwing them back and forth at each other. The stalk is a clue to its real identity. Name that plant monkey brain. It always seemed fitting to me the bounty that would soon be on our plates had originally come from a farm.

Maclura pomifera commonly known as the osage orange hedge or hedge apple tree is a small deciduous tree or large shrub typically growing to 8 to 15 metres 30 50 ft tall the distinctive fruit from a multiple fruit family is roughly spherical bumpy 8 to 15 centimetres 3 6 in in diameter and turns bright yellow green in the fall. Bodark osage orange hedge apple or monkey brain tree all refer to maclura pomifera a native tree of great utility. The fruits secrete a sticky white latex when cut. Says some british friends of hers saw such a tree in dallas tx and discovered that it is sometimes called bois d arc or bodark tree by locals.

Marmoset baby monkey in a tree. There were plenty more at the base of the osage orange tree in a small park near the yarra river not far from home in hawthorn. It s autumn and this tree is for turning to butcher and paraphrase the most famous quote of a recently dead british prime. The wood of osage orange is extremely strong and rot resistant.

History and mystery of the monkey brain tree. And perhaps its colour texture and location. But many of its nicknames are confusing because it s not an orange or an apple tree stavish said. She goes on to note that green brains or monkey balls or mock oranges are an underappreciated fruit.

We called them monkey brains. In parts of china the monkey s brain is eaten raw. While some claim green brains are outright inedible shapton says there s a way to get. By dan magneson fishery biologist usfws.

This is disgusting primarily because of the very high risk of contracting fatal transmissible spongiform encephalopathies such as variant creutzfeldt jakob disease and other similar brain diseases.