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bowwood
(redirected from Osage-orange)

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bowwood: see mulberry mulberry, common name for the Moraceae, a family of deciduous or evergreen trees and shrubs, often climbing, mostly of pantropical distribution, and characterized by milky sap. Several genera bear edible fruit, e.g.
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Howard Burnett responds: The osage-orange (Maclura pomifera) is originally native to the mid-South but has been planted throughout the eastern United States.
One tree considered important to its community--and to the nation as a whole--is the national champion osage-orange, located in Charlotte County at Red Hill, the home of Revolutionary War patriot Patrick Henry.
Editor: The jury is still out on the age of the great osage-orange at the home of Patrick Henry, despite the intriguing article (Summer 2003) by Nancy Ross Hugo and the two increment cores taken by dendrochronologist Carolyn Copenheaver.
 
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