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In October and November, apple-green, grapefruit-size fruits of female Osage orange trees (Maclura pomifera, Zones 4–9) fall from their canopies and hit the ground with a hearty thump. This North American native species is part of the mulberry family and has a long history of use throughout the Midwest for its wood, and more recently, for its extreme tolerance to urban conditions. It’s worth considering the next time you are planning to plant a large landscape tree.
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Osage Orange - The Washington Post
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Maclura pomifera Osage Orange, Bois D
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Osage Orange Leaf (Maclura Pomifera)
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fruits of Osage-orange, Hedge Apple or Horse Apple: MACLURA POMIFERA,
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The softball-sized fruits of the Osage orange may have evolved to be eaten by extinct megafauna, and their wood is ideal for making archery bows and warm fires.
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Say hello to minimalist skin care with maximum results. Pomifera oil is an anti-aging botanical oil and a potent source of antioxidants, omega-6, and other bioactives. It's cold-press isolated from the seeds of the Maclura pomifera fruit and combined with plant oils to create everyday essentials for visibly healthy, glowing skin.
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Osage Orange, Hedge Apple, Maclura pomifera, White Co, TN by Chuck Sutherland, via Flickr
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Maclura pomifera, commonly known as the Osage orange, horse apple, hedge, or hedge apple tree, is a small deciduous tree or large shrub, typically growing about 8 to 15 metres tall. The distinctive fruit, a multiple fruit, is roughly spherical, bump and turns bright yellow-green in the fall. It is a member of the mulberry family, Moraceae. Maclura pomifera has been known by a variety of English common names in addition to Osage orange, including mock orange, hedge apple, horse apple, monkey…
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As exciting as an alien brain could be, according to Wikipedia, the tree producing these fruits is very much of the earthly type, and it is closely related to the mulberry. Maclura pomifera has many different names including, hedgeapple, horseapple, bois d’arc, bodark, bodock or Osage orange, although it is not related to oranges. “Every year when the tree starts dropping the fruit we get many students asking questions about what those things are,” says Science Department clerk Martha…
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If you can look past the large fruits currently dropping from this native tree (unless one drops on your windshield) and select more mannerly cultivars of this tough native tree, Osage-orange can be a go-to tree for difficult urban sites.
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Osage orange (Maclura pomifera), also known as Bois d’ arc, Hedge Apple or Horse Apple, is a member of the Moraceae family, to which figs, mulberries, breadfruit and jackfruit also belong, an…
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Family: Mulberry (Moraceae) Hardy to Zones 4 to 10 (Bow Wood, Hedgeapple, Orange, Osage) Deciduous, dioecious tree to 60 feet. Perfectly cold hardy. Native to south-central North America, now widely spread, although most trees in the western United States are very old. Tree is not self-fertile, it is dioecious (individual flowers are either male or female, but only one sex is to be found on any one plant). Both male and female plants must be grown if seed is required. We normally plant…
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