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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.
10 paź 2024 · The Osage orange tree is also known as a bodark, hedge apple, prairie hedge, yellow-wood, bow wood, naranjo chino, or horse apple. If you have not heard of this tree before, you may be surprised when you see it, most especially the ugly fruit that it produces.
1 kwi 2021 · Fruit. 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, and is native to the south-central United States.
28 gru 2023 · 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. Despite its name, Osage Orange is not closely related to oranges and is actually a member of the mulberry family.
14 paź 2019 · It's an Osage orange tree, otherwise known as a bodark. Cindy Shapton, a gardener and author who lives in Tennessee, wrote about her passion for "brains" in a recent newsletter. Interestingly,...
6 lip 2024 · The fruit of the bodark, by which the tree receives some of its more common names, is structured like the fruit of the bodark’s cousin, the mulberry, consisting of a collection of seed drupelets, though it is green and approximately five inches in diameter. When cut, it exudes a milky sap.
Fruit and leaf of Osage orange plant from the PLANTS Database website. Photo by Jeff McMillian. Alternate Names: bodark, hedge apple, horse-apple, naranjo chino, hedge, and Bois d’Arc. Uses. Historically it was used by Native American tribes to produce wooden bows thus the French name bois d’arc or ‘wood of the bow’.
