I find the entire thread fascinating. I know osage orange , che , mulberry, jack fruit , bread fruit etc. Are all close relatives. It sounds ridiculous, but osage orange is not edible while the others are. Interestingly, figs have that same white glue like sap found in unedible parts of jack fruit. I know osage orange was a preferred food of the wooly mammoth. If someone was going to gmo anything it should be to make osage orange produce the fruit of the tropical cousins jackfruit and breadfruit. Many might wonder why they dont gmo silk worms to survive well in Kansas on our plethora of mulberries. Imagine a booming USA silk market. What about jack fruit the size of watermelons that we could easily graft to osage orange populations. @tonyOmahaz5 and I tried many experiments amongst this family of fruit.
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