Posted by rgvtx on November 08, 2008 at 16:38:22 from (64.12.117.74):
In Reply to: OT What is it?? posted by George G on November 08, 2008 at 09:26:50:
In Texas that's known as a Bois d'arc fruit or better know in the slang term as a horse apple. We used to cut the fruit in half and lay them around the floor in the kitchen to keep the cockroaches out. The name Bois d'arc is pronounced "Bow Dark". The wood from the tree is hard as steel, ask anyone that tries to cut one with a saw. Years ago they used bois d'arc stumps for piers under homes, they never would rot away. Better than concrete. My Dad bought an old home built in the early 1900's in east Texas and that is what held it off the ground. A few had shifted and I had to reposition them and do some shim work in th e 90's, but I can assure you none had any rot or termites. He also had a bois d'arc growing along a fence row he asked me to remove. I cut it back and poured rock salt on it and around it, stupid thing refused to die. I tried stump killer, and every kind of tree killer chemical concoction known to man and it just seemed to defy death and would grow more suckers out the base of the stump. Finally in desperation I brought down a Case 580 backhoe to dig it out. I dug around it, got under it with the bucket and started lifting. There was a root that was at least 60 feet long coming up with it removing the fence with it. I cut off the root a good 10 feet away from the stump and yanked the bulk of it all out. Backfilled the hole with dirt and rocksalt and let him know that would take care of the problem. Nope, I was wrong. Next spring it came back up where I dug the stump out as well as where the root was cut off 10 feet away. From then on he just would mow it off when mowing the grass and it never could get over a few inches tall. He sold the house 5 or 6 years later and that stupid tree was still trying to find sunshine. Anyway, google bois d'arc and you can learn more about the Texas tree that most call a big weed and I called the concrete tree.
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