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Taxon: Maclura pomifera (Raf.) C. K. Schneid.

Genus: Maclura section: Maclura
Family: Moraceae tribe: Moreae.
Nomen number: 23061
Place of publication: Ill. Handb. Laubholzk. 1:806. 1906
Name verified on: 23-May-1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 26-Jan-2000
Species priority site is: North Central Regional PI Station (NC7).
Accessions: 4 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


Common names:

  • hedge-apple   (Source: F Carolin ) – English
  • osage-orange   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  • bois d'arc   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • maclure épineux   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • oranger des osages   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • Osagedorn   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  • laranja-osage   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • pau-d'arco   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • machura   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  • madera de arco   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  • naranjo de los osages   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish

Economic importance:

  • Environmental: boundary/barrier/support; ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Zander ed13)
  • Materials: tannin/dyestuff   (source of yellow dye listed in Webster)
  • Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury)
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Distributional range:

      Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)
      Naturalized: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)
      Cultivated:
  • NORTHERN AMERICA
    United States

References:

  • Berg, C. C. 1986. The delimitation and subdivision of the genus Maclura (Moraceae). Proc. Kon. Ned. Akad. Wetensch., C 89C:243.
  • Cannon, J. & M. Cannon. 1994. Dye plants and dyeing. The Herbert Press & The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. (Dye Pl)
  • Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
  • Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
  • Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
  • Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. (Econ Pl Aust)
  • Little, E. L., Jr. 1978. Important forest trees of the United States. (AH 519)
  • Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541. (Trees US)
  • McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains. (F GPlains)
  • Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system - on-line resource. (Can Poison Pl)
  • Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas. (F Carolin)
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
  • Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol. (F Canada) [introd.].
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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Maclura pomifera (Raf.) C. K. Schneid.:

  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority for Maclura pomifera cultivars
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

More:
  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?23061 (09 February 2010)

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