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Maclura pomifera Osage Orange
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Osage Orange

Botanical Name:

Maclura pomifera
  • Broadly rounded crown with thorny spreading branches
  • Glossy oval dark green leaves turn golden-yellow in the fall
  • Dioecious: insignificant greenish male and female flowers on separate trees
  • Female flowers give way to grapefruit-sized green fruit
  • Bark, wood and roots are an orange colour
  • Bloom Time: June
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Hardiness Zone

4

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Flower Colour

  • Green
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Height

10 m-15 m

Width

Spread

10 m-15 m

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Plant Characteristics

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Exposure

  • Full Sun
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Soil Moisture

  • Average to Dry Soils
  • Well-drained
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Growth Rate

  • Medium
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Foliage Colour

  • Green
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Attributes

  • Deciduous
  • Drought Tolerant
  • Fruit
  • Heat Tolerant
  • Low Maintenance
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Flowering Time

  • Spring
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Shape

  • Rounded
  • Spreading
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Garden Uses

  • Screening (privacy)
  • Specimen

Additional Details

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Growing Tips & Maintenance

  • Maclura tolerates urban pollution, drought, moisture, heat and a variety of soil conditions, including a variable pH. Can be grown as low or high stemmed tree form. Maclura branches are sharp with thorns, making it a good hedging plant or barrier. Older branches lose their thorns.
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Additional Notes

  • While the inedible fruits somewhat resemble oranges in texture, they are not related to oranges.  A member of the fig family, each fruit is actually a dense cluster of hundreds of small fruits. A bright yellow dye can be extracted from the wood, which is also very rot-resistant.  The wood from Maclura is among the hardest in the world, and produces the greatest heat-energy per cubic inch of all the trees native to Ontario. While not officially native to Ontario, it's pretty close.
Maclura pomifera Osage Orange
Osage Orange

Size: 60cm 1gal

Maclura pomifera Osage Orange

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