Osage-Orange
Scientific Name:Maclura pomifera


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.
* Definitions based on the USDA
terminology
Introduced Native
Category:Tree
Identified by:M. Becus