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Maclura pomifera, commonly known as the Osage orange (/ ˈ oʊ s eɪ dʒ / 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 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
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. [4] Maclura is closely related to the genus Cudrania, and hybrids between the two genera have been produced.
Tahitian apple; Otaheite apple; golden apple; ambarella ... hedge gooseberry Grossulariaceae ... Osage-orange Moraceae (mulberry family) 641
Choisya ternata (Mexican mock orange), a shrub native to Mexico; Maclura pomifera (Osage-orange), a small tree from North America; Murraya paniculata (orange jessamine), a small tree ranging from East Asia to Australasia; Philadelphus lewisii (Lewis' mock-orange), a shrub from western North America and the state flower of Idaho.
[2] [3] Examples are the fig, pineapple, mulberry, osage orange, and jackfruit. In contrast, an aggregate fruit such as a raspberry develops from multiple ovaries of a single flower. In languages other than English, the meanings of "multiple" and "aggregate" fruit are reversed, so that multiple fruits merge several pistils within a single ...
A large apple, weighing 250–300 g (8.8–10.6 oz). Yellow skin, juicy flesh, bittersweet with a weak aroma. Eating Airlie Red Flesh (a.k.a. Newell-Kimzey) [22] Airlie, Oregon, US c. 1961: A large, conic apple. Light yellow-green skin strewn with white dots, occasionally with a faint reddish orange blush.
Pomiferin is a prenylated isoflavone that can be found along with osajin in the fruits and female flowers of the osage orange tree (Maclura pomifera). [1]Pomiferin was identified and named in 1939 by Melville L. Wolfrom from Ohio State University. [2]