The hedge apple tree, also known as the Osage orange, is a native tree growing in the south of the United States. Native to the Red River of the South basin, it can be found in the wilds of Texas ...

Similarly, other fruit trees have varying needs: Apple trees need between 800 and 1,100 chilling hours, and cherry trees demand the most, about 1,000 or more hours.

Twelve-year-old Milo Weinberg remembers the apple tree at Cambridge’s Tobin Montessori School like an old friend. He played around its trunk for years. He learned to ride his bike around it. And ...