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Osage Orange
By Lou Paun
Osage Orange (Maclura) - A tree of great use in its own country, and occasionally grown with us in the south and near the sea, but of slight value for its beauty, ...

 


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The Osage Orange is a member of the mulberry family and bears large, hard, yellow, round fruit that reach five inches across that slightly resemble an orange, except without a rind.

Osage Orange - Maclura pomifera
Wild Orange - Maclura pomifera
Orange-root - Asclepias tuberosa
Osage - Maclura pomifera
Osier ...

Maclura pomifera
Osage Orange
Moraceae
Located between near small pond in front of new chemistry building.

The plants are often propagated from softwood cuttings taken in midsummer and treated with rooting hormone. The che is also easily grafted to Osage orange rootstock using either a cleft or whip-and-tongue graft.

grew more intense (and aromatic) until the third grade when we returned to find the trees - gone! The stinkbomb war ended for lack of ammunition, but schoolyard peace was not to be achieved. To the nuns' despair a new evil arose - the osage orange ...

Maclura pomifera (Osage Orange)
Morus alba (White Mulberry)
Morus australis (Contorted Mulberry)
Morus microphylla (Texas Mulberry, Little-leaf Mulberry)
Morus nigra (Black Mulberry)
Morus rubra (Red Mulberry) ...

A yellow dye is also derived from the root of the Osage Orange (Toxylon pomiferum, Raf.), belonging to this order.

See also: Orange, Mulberry, Green, May, Maple