Maclura pomifera - Wikipedia
Maclura pomifera, commonly known as the Osage orange (/ ˈoʊseɪdʒ / OH-sayj), is a small deciduous tree or large shrub, native to the south-central United States. It typically grows about 8 to 15 metres (30–50 ft) tall.
Bodark - Encyclopedia of Arkansas
2024年7月6日 · The bodark tree (Maclura pomifera) is a common tree in Arkansas, known to live in at least forty-seven of the state’s seventy-five counties. The name “bodark” is a slurring of the French “bois d’arc,” meaning “wood of the bow”—a reference to the Osage Indians’ practice of making bows from the tree. The Osage connection ...
Osage Orange Tree: What You Need to Know - Rural Living Today
2024年10月10日 · The Osage orange tree is also known as a bodark, hedge apple, prairie hedge, yellow-wood, bow wood, naranjo chino, or horse apple. If you have not heard of this tree before, you may be surprised when you see it, most especially the ugly fruit that it produces.
Osage Orange Tree - Forestry.com
2023年12月28日 · Osage Orange, scientifically known as Maclura pomifera, is a deciduous tree native to the central United States. Also commonly referred to as hedge apple, horse apple, or bodark, this tree is renowned for its distinctive, bumpy, and bright green fruit, which resembles a wrinkled, oversized orange.
Osage Orange (Maclura pomifera): All You Need To Know - Gardenia
Maclura pomifera, commonly known as Osage Orange, Bodark, or Horse Apple, is a unique deciduous tree native to the south-central United States. Known for its distinctive large, green, wrinkled fruit, this tree holds a fascinating history and numerous ecological and practical uses.
Osage Orange (Bodark) Tree | Walter Reeves: The Georgia …
Bodark, Osage-orange, hedge apple or monkey-brain tree all refer to Maclura pomifera, a native tree of great utility. The wood of Osage-orange is extremely strong and rot resistant. It makes long-lived fence posts; the thorny tree was once widely planted as a natural fence in the Midwest.
Osage Orange (Maclura pomifera): History ... - AMERICAN …
2024年9月2日 · The Osage orange (Maclura pomifera), also called horse apple, hedge apple, bodark and bois d’arc has very dense, rot-resistant wood that excretes a milky sap. The branches are armed with thorns at leaf bases. Osage orange fruit is green, bumpy and inedible.
The Bois d’Arc Tree — Beautiful Hays County
2023年7月28日 · Bois d’Arc is not a tree you are likely to plant in your small suburban landscape. However, it has a history and characteristics that make it unique among our native Texas plant species. It was often planted to serve as an impenetrable hedge or to …
Bodark, the Tree with a Deep History - olderathbydanyoung.com
2022年6月3日 · Bodark is Texas slang for Bois d’arc, the French term meaning bow wood. Better known in these parts as Horse-Apple, (Machura pomifera), the “pig tight and bull strong” hedge planted by early settlers who could’t afford stone walls in the decades before barbed-wire.
Bodark - Farm Hand's Companion
2013年2月27日 · The bodark tree was sought by early European explorers of the New World who valued it for the making of archery bows. In America, settlers and homesteaders used it for “living” fences to keep livestock either in or out of areas.
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