[Herbalist] Re: Walnuts and Osage Orange

Corwyn and Carowyn silveroak at juno.com
Wed Oct 17 11:15:07 PDT 2001


Greetings!

>> > The walnuts - do they look like large softball sized green brains
>when they come off the tree?
>
>Softball sized green brains sounds more like osage orange....

'Tis osage orange.  The fruits *can* dye, but you don't *want* to, 'cause
the resultant cloth is sticky.  The *bark* of said tree, on the other
hand, will give you the most wonderful orange-yellow-reddish dye you
could imagine!

-Caro

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