Bill and Bob explore the mysteries of the Osage Orange tree. Find out why this is the most planted tree in North America and why it was so highly prized by Native Americans.
Interested in Pleistocene anachronisms? Check out Connie Barlow’s The Ghosts of Evolution: Nonsensical Fruit, Missing Partners, and other Ecological Anachronisms.
Bob concluded the episode describing the difficult (and messy) process of extracting and preparing Osage Orange seeds for a “tasty snack”. Click here for the video.