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    Default Plant/fruit ID???

    What is this, found 2 growing. Looks similar to lemon, kinda taste, smell like one. Growing in low lying area, wild. Thorns from hell! Some type of lemon?IMG_20201014_142002151.jpg
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    Looks like lemon trees my wife used to grow in pots.
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    Mock orange is what they're called but I think the proper name is mock lemons

    Either way they got about the stoutest thorns in nature

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    https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/citrus-trifoliata/

    Can make a bitter marmalade from them. I know I sliced one open and it was hell cleaning my blade off
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sportin' Woodies View Post
    Mock orange is what they're called but I think the proper name is mock lemons

    Either way they got about the stoutest thorns in nature
    I’ve got some Locust trees on my place with thorns i Would put up against anything in nature I’ve seen

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    Thats it. Yes, it left my knife blade with a sticky residue. Never seen one before and ran across it today looking for deer sign along a creek.
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    Mock Orange
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    Kill it ASAP
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    Trifoliate orange. Dispose of it
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    Literally translated to, "I smell like Scotch and Kodiak".
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    Elephants love to strip the bark from certain trees. So, the theory is that locusts, having a sweet underbark, evolved their nasty thorns to discourage mammoths.

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    Well someone needs to tell the locust trees they won. All the mammoths are dead so locusts need to retract their claws so I can keep air in my tractor tires.

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    I cut down every one (locusts) on our farm when we bought it. I used to love bow hunting over them early season on our old lease, but I didn't have equipment to keep up then either.
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    I was always told you’ll find them in old pastures? I’ve seen them in old pastures planted in pine now, mostly. Not exclusively but 9/10 times.
    Quote Originally Posted by Chessbay View Post
    Literally translated to, "I smell like Scotch and Kodiak".
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    They heard about the efforts to clone a mammoth

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    I'd say where I found these 2 was a pasture 20-30 yrs ago.
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