Maclura pomifera - Wikipedia
Maclura pomifera, commonly known as the Osage orange (/ ˈoʊseɪdʒ / OH-sayj), is a small deciduous tree or large shrub, native to the south-central United States. It typically grows about 8 to 15 metres (30–50 ft) tall.
Osage Orange Tree - Forestry.com
2023年12月28日 · Osage Orange, scientifically known as Maclura pomifera, is a deciduous tree native to the central United States. Also commonly referred to as hedge apple, horse apple, or bodark, this tree is renowned for its distinctive, bumpy, and bright green fruit, which resembles a wrinkled, oversized orange.
Osage-Orange - US Forest Service Research and Development
Osage-orange (Maclura pomifera) produces no sawtimber, pulpwood, or utility poles, but it has been planted in greater numbers than almost any other tree species in North America. Known also as hedge, hedge-apple, bodark, bois-d'arc, bowwood, and naranjo chino, it made agricultural settlement of the prairies possible (though not profitable), led ...
Osage Orange | Missouri Department of Conservation
Osage orange is a medium-sized tree with a short trunk, dense, round, or irregular crown, milky sap, and stout thorns. Leaves are alternate, simple, 3–6 inches long, 2–3 inches wide, broadest below the middle; margins lacking teeth; upper surface dark green, shiny; lower surface paler, with some hairs along the veins.
Maclura pomifera (Bowwood, Hedge-Apple, Mapo, Osage-Orange…
Osage-orange is a deciduous tree in the Moraceae (mulberry family) native to the central southern U.S.A. It has naturalized in many areas of the eastern United States. The genus name Maclura comes from American geologist William Maclura (1763-1840) and the species name pomiferaI means apple-bearing referring to the large inedible round fruits.
Basic Tree | Tree Identification | Regional and Community …
brown-orange with thin ridges; darker and irregular fissures with age: Bud: terminal bud: lacking; lateral buds: small, rounded, nearly imbedded in the twig: Bud Arrangement: Alternate: Twig: moderately stout, tan/brown, spines at the base of buds/leaves; has milky sap when cut: Flower: male and female on separate plants (dioecious) Fruit
Osage Orange | Oklahoma State University - OSU Extension
Common Name: Osage Orange. Other Names: Bodark, Bowood, Hedgeapple, Horseapple, Bois d’Arc. Species Name: Maclura pomifera. Family Name: Moraceae
OSAGE-ORANGE - MACLURA POMIFERA | The UFOR Nursery & Lab
Osage-orange is a medium-sized tree with a short trunk and rounded crown with large spherical fruit produced by female trees. The bark is gray-brown to orange-brown and furrowed into an irregular criss-cross pattern.
Osage orange is a pioneering species forever invading exposed mineral soils, particularly overgrazed pastures and abandoned crop fields. Other tree species frequently found in these areas include: Juniperus virginiana, Robinia pseudoacacia, Gleditsia triacanthos and Crataegus sp. Please consult the PLANTS Web site and your State
Maclura pomifera - Plant Finder - Missouri Botanical Garden
Features orange-brown bark, ovate shiny dark green leaves, milky sap, thorny twigs and large wrinkled fruit. Leaves turn yellow in fall. Osage orange is dioecious (separate male and female trees), with non-showy greenish male and female flowers appearing in clusters on …