Latin: Maclura pomifera
Other common names: bois-d'arc, bodark, bowwood, hedge, mockorange
Mature Height: 10-50 ft.
Soil / Climate: Native in southern Arkansas, to Oklahoma and eastern Texas. Naturalized widely from New England and Michigan, south to Texas and Oregon. Also found in the Pacific Northwest.
Notes: leaves turn bright yellow in fall, thorny branches, often used as hedge, bears inedible round fruit 3-5" in diameter. Both male and female plants are needed to produce fruit.
Cold Stream Farm supplies Osage Orange trees which are grown as bare root seedlings and transplants and sold both wholesale and retail with no minimum order.
