The hedge apple, also known as Osage orange or mock orange, is the distinctive fruit of the Osage orange tree (Maclura pomifera). These large, green, wrinkled spheres have long been a source of ...

The hedge apple tree, also known as the Osage orange, is a native tree growing in the south of the United States. Native to ...

It is most commonly known as Osage orange, but other names include hedge, hedge-apple, yellow-wood, bowwood, Osage apple, and bodark (from the French bois d’arc, meaning bow wood). In addition ...

The Osage orange, which Lewis obtained from Pierre Chouteau ... The plant's long thorns created a virtually impenetrable hedge, and later in the 19th century, many thousands of miles of these ...