Hi Seedmoney, I would like some of these little sprouts, and a few other items on your seed list! You are interested in my seed offer, so maybe we should do a trade? Would these Osage orange trees be hardy in zone 5/6?

These aren't listed in your wants but I have Mulberry Tree seeds and Quince Tree seeds. Both are fruits. If you are interested I would like to trade for your Schisandra chinensis and Ginkgo biloba. Thanks.

I don't think osage-orange is toxic, and it's gross enough that I don't think enough of it could be eaten to do any harm...yuck ! I've taken seed from mature fruit, it IS a pain in the neck. The best luck I"ve had is when I forgot and left a bag out all winter on my porch. The plastic bag leaked a nasty ooz (which only took a couple of years to come off the wooden floor), but the next spring I put on a pair of the blue nitril gloves and squezed through the slop sort of like separating pumpkin seeds from the pulp, but, alot nastier. After there was a pile of more seed than yucky stuff, I put it in a sieve and rinsed it for ages under running water, then dried them on a cookie sheet. I have quite a few seedlings going, I think they are neet little trees, but I do have to back you up on the seed gathering being a real pain-in-the-neck thing to do! Did you know the trees were used in place of fence since they are tough, fast growing, and even cattle won't fight the thorns? Also Native Americans made an orange dye from the roots, and I think they used the wood for bows. One of my hobbies is wood carving, and from those circles I've seen some beautiful sculptures done from the wood!

" I don't see any thorns, but not every one has them (mine don't). " I was looking for thorns to because I wasn't aware not all have them. For several years I admired a grove of single trunk trees thinking how I would love a couple sawed into lumber. One day I passed and they had been dozed and burned.