Request for research help – Do you have an Osage Orange tree

Do you have an Osage Orange tree or know someone who has one? Here are a few images for your reference…Osage Orange fruit on tree Osage Orange Tree Osage Orange fruit profile

They are also called hedge apple, horse apple, monkey ball, bois d’arc, bodark, or bodock.
One of the team from the Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute, Terry Osborne, would like to get some fruit off them to see if they contain Queensland Fruit Fly.
Please email him if you have any fruit or know of a tree in the district with fruit on it.

 

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