NOTES: Large green fruits and twigs with spiny thorns. Dioecious (male and female flowers on separate plants).
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Osage-Orange
Genus species:
Maclura pomifera
Common Name:
Osage-Orange
Family Name:
Moraceae
Annual herbs or trees, usually with milky sap; leaves alternate or opposite, simple, stipulate; flowers unisexual (plants monoecious or dioecious), regular, greenish, in axillary clusters; fruit a multiple of drupes or achenes.
Seed Type:
Angiosperm
Origin:
Native: native to North America. Non-native: not native to North America. Introduced Native: native to North America, but not Rowe Woods.
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