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osage orange

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Osage orange: 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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osage orange [′ō‚sāj ′är·inj]
(botany)
Maclura pomifera.A tree in the mulberry family of the Urticales characterized by yellowish bark, milky sap, simple entire leaves, strong axillary thorns, and aggregate green fruit about the size and shape of an orange.
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In my left hand I held a long-bow I'd carefully crafted from an Osage orange tree.
Stone-age Tom: an unforgettable turkey hunt involves far more than a ... by Berger, Billy / Bowhunter
It’s on a steep, 45-degree incline and sports a domineering, nasty-looking honey locust with sharp spines clustered around the trunk, an Osage orange tree that’s fine until fall, when it drops its six-inch round, inedible “oranges” everywhere and, of course, a quite cozy colony of rats.
Onward and Upward in Riverside Park by Nancy Butkus / The New York Observer
This book profiles 25 botanical specimens collected by the duo, including Osage orange, snowberry, camas, bearberry, and ponderosa pine.
Common To This Country: Botanical Discoveries of Lewis and Clark by Science News
 
 
 
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