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
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
Low country redneck who moved north
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
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
Last edited by Frank1; 10-14-2020 at 05:35 PM.
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.
Low country redneck who moved north
Mock Orange
"Hunt today to kill tomorrow." - Ron Jolly
Kill it ASAP
"Hunt today to kill tomorrow." - Ron Jolly
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.
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.
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.
Carolina Counsel
They heard about the efforts to clone a mammoth
I'd say where I found these 2 was a pasture 20-30 yrs ago.
Low country redneck who moved north
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