Osage Orange won't come back from the dead, but I wouldn't stick a freshly-cut piece of it in the dirt next to my pond.
I've never tried to propagate the stuff, but I've seen what a live one will do if you pile dirt up against the trunk and leave
it alone for a year or three. I did that with some of the spoil from my pond renovation. When I finally cleaned it up that
tree had roots the size of my wrist growing out of the trunk 6' above the original grade.
