Horse Apple
Taken with a Kodak Easyshare Z812 IS HD camera with image stabilizer, Schneider-Kreuznach/Variogon 36mm-432mm (equivalent) AF 12X Optical Zoom.
This was submitted earlier for the Bubble Jeopardy group. Is being submitted now in hopes of being featured for the Amateur Art Photography group challenge.
Horse Apple belongs to the following groups:
Abstracts from Nature, Amateur Photographers' Association and Green! Available for sale asGreeting Cards

Nancy Stafford
i taking a guess it a plant of some type?
Glenna Walker replied
Close.
Angel Perry
Looks like a brain!...LOL… a macro of a bald cypress ball
Glenna Walker replied
LOL…no!
Nancy Stafford
is it a catus plant?
Glenna Walker replied
No it’s not.
redhawk
Is it a crab apple?
Glenna Walker replied
YES IT IS…WAY TO GO REDHAWK!!!!
Nancy Stafford
is it related to the aloe plant?
Glenna Walker replied
No.
redhawk
Thanks Glenna. The only reason I could guess that it was, I found one several years ago and did not know what it was then. Hugs
TracyD
Unusual find Glenna, is it edible? If it is l hate to have to peel it lol!!!
Visual Inspi...
cool !!
DWarren
I was going to say, “ROAD APPLE” from the Bois -D’Arc tree. They are bigger than crab apples and rough all around them.
Daniel J. McCa...
Wow, I’m sure it looks like my underused brain : ) Very cool! Great shot, Glenna!
Shelby Stalnaker
I thought some kind of fruit but would never have guessed an apple.
SilverVisionz
I was going to say a green brain, lol….cool!
Ruth Lambert
lol-
—NOW I KNOW!!! I’ve seen these here in Kentucky-and have asked ‘what are they?”—no one seemed to know! One of the answers I got was—we call them “brain fruit” -- lol and up close they remind one of a human brain!!!