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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. The distinctive fruit, a multiple fruit, is roughly spherical, bumpy, 8 to 15 centimetres (3–6 in) in diameter, and ...
In the late 1830s, Turner selected the Osage orange tree as an ideal plant for this purpose, and patented a machine for preparing the soil and planting the tree's seeds. [19] [20] Turner then advertised and sold Osage orange seeds, which were widely used as hedges before the development of barbed wire between 1867 and 1874. [21]
Maclura. Nutt. [1] Maclura is a genus of flowering plants in the mulberry family, Moraceae. It includes the inedible Osage orange, which is used as mosquito repellent and grown throughout the United States as a hedging plant. [3] It is dioecious, with male and female flowers borne on separate plants.
Tree squirrels will eat the seeds that are contained within these strange lime green objects lying on the forest floor.
Capparis mitchellii. Lindl. Busbeckea mitchellii F.Muell. The wild orange is an Australian native plant found in dry inland areas of Australia. Its scientific name is Capparis mitchellii. It is not related to oranges, nor to the Osage-orange which is known as "wild orange" in North America, but to capers .
The yellow wood of the Osage orange is hard, strong and durable. It can be worked while it is green, but once it dries it is extremely hard. Master gardener: By any name, hedge apples have uses
Originally planted in Bidwell's Bar near the Bidwell Bar Bridge, the tree is a Mediterranean sweet orange Citrus × sinensis cultivar. The citrus rootstock was brought from Mazatlán, Mexico, on a shipping vessel. The two-year-old orange tree, which was a novelty in Northern California at the time, was purchased in 1856 by Judge Joseph Lewis in ...
Genus: Ceratomia. Species: C. hageni. Binomial name. Ceratomia hageni. Grote, 1874 [1] Ceratomia hageni, the Osage orange sphinx or Hagen's sphinx, is a hawk moth in the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1874.