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Hedge of Osage Orange Trees

American settlers used the Osage orange as a hedge to keep free-range livestock from vegetable gardens and corn fields.

 

The fruit is seldom eaten by humans, or by foraging animals, extinct partners such as mammoths fed on the fruit and aided in seed dispersal.

 

-- Wikipedia

 

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Crocheron Park, Bayside, NYC

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