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19-NOV-2005

Vic Cooke

Tennis Anyone?
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I can't recall ever seeing this kind of fungus before, but there were dozens around the woods at
the LCHS during my visit this weekend. Spherical, pale chartreuse in color, tennis ball size. Strange!

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Mike Briggs		28-Nov-2005 13:14
Vic, Legend has it if you place a couple of these in the corners of your basement they will keep spiders at bay!? Since my wife and step daughter are afraid of spiders, we just received some of these and I put them in the basement. Before doing so, the bag of these were in the kitchen on the floor, and not more than 4 foot away I had to "come to the rescue" to kill a spider. I looked at the bag and said maybe if I took one of the fruits and threw it at the spider it may do something. None the less, we have them in the basement, protecting the homestead! Photogrif

Pam Brake		23-Nov-2005 14:14
Ha, ha, I thought from the thumbnail it was a tennis ball as well. Appreciate the ID's as well as I thought it some sort of black walnut.

Gary Robertshaw		22-Nov-2005 06:44
At least they're not road apples.

Guest		21-Nov-2005 06:37
Thanks for the ID's Bruce and Liz! I was getting nowhere with fungus ID resources. I didn't handle these, and if I did I would have noticed they were windfall rather than growing out of the ground. Sounds like Ohio is a bit outside the normal range where these are more common, which probably explains why I'd never seen one before. The LCHS property is an old summer estate, and perhaps these were intentional plantings long ago. --Vic

Bruce Ward		21-Nov-2005 05:00
As Liz noted, these look like hedge balls, the "fruit" from hedge trees (Osage Orange).

Liz Bickel		21-Nov-2005 04:19
I think these are "Hedge Apples" - not fungus. http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/hortnews/1997/10-10-1997/hedgeapple.html There are a lot of them in the woods around here, too.

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