osage orange

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The fruit of this tree
The tree Maclura pomifera, noted for its large, dense, wrinkly, bright green and unpalatable fruit, once a popular hedge tree in the United States
A dioecious spiny tree (Maclura pomifera) native to Arkansas and Texas and having pulpy, inedible, orangelike multiple fruit
The tree was first found in the country of the Osage Indians, and bears a hard and inedible fruit of an orangelike appearance
aurantiaca), closely allied to the mulberry (Morus); also, its fruit
See Bois d'arc
small shrubby deciduous yellowwood tree of south central United States having spines, glossy dark green leaves and an inedible fruit that resembles an orange; its hard orange-colored wood used for bows by native Americans; frequently planted as boundary hedge
An ornamental tree of the genus Maclura M

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