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The Osage orange was a very handy tree for Native American Indians, who used it for centuries to make bows. Osage Orange trees are also called by their French name: bois d’arc or “wood of the bow.” It wasn’t until explorers came out West that it was really discovered, though.
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.
The Osage orange tree is known for its large green, inedible fruits. Find out more about the history and characteristics of this tree.
Osage orange, (Maclura pomifera), thorny tree or shrub native to the south-central United States, the only species of its genus in the family Moraceae. The Osage orange is often trained as a hedge; when planted in rows along a boundary, it forms an effective spiny barrier.
The Osage orange hedge row tree, once a favorite of American settlers, deserves a look from modern-day homesteaders looking for fencing options.
Bodark, Osage-orange, hedge apple or monkey-brain tree all refer to Maclura pomifera, a native tree of great utility. The wood of Osage-orange is extremely strong and rot resistant. It makes long-lived fence posts; the thorny tree was once widely planted as a natural fence in the Midwest.
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.
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 ...
Plant Guide. OSAGE ORANGE. Maclura pomifera (Rafin.) C.K. Schneider Plant Symbol =MAPO. Contributed by: USDA NRCS Plant Materials Center Manhattan, Kansas. 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.
The tree and fruit that Meriwether Lewis would call the Osage Plum or Apple when he wrote back to President Jefferson in March 1804, is today known as the Osage orange (Maclura pomifera). But most people now know the large, lumpy fruit as a “hedge apple.”