Maclura pomifera: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Rosales
- Family
- Moraceae
- Genus
- Maclura
- Species
- Maclura pomifera
- Scientific Name
- Maclura pomifera
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Maclura pomifera
Maclura pomifera, commonly known as the Osage orange ( OH-sayj), is a small deciduous tree or large shrub, native to the south-central United States. It is a member of the mulberry family, Moraceae. It typically grows about 8 to 15 m (30–50 ft) tall. The distinctive multiple fruit resembles an immature orange, is roughly spherical, bumpy, 8 to 15 cm (3–6 in) in diameter, and turns bright yellow-green in the fall. The fruit excretes a sticky white latex when cut or damaged. Despite the name "Osage orange", it is not related to the orange.
Due to its latex secretions and woody pulp, the fruit is not usually eaten by humans and rarely by foraging animals. Ecologists Daniel H. Janzen and Paul S. Martin proposed in 1982 that the fruit of this species might be an example of what has come to be called an evolutionary anachronism—that is, a fruit coevolved with a large animal seed dispersal partner that is now extinct. This hypothesis is controversial.
Maclura pomifera has many common names, including mock orange, horse apple, hedge apple, hedge ball, monkey ball, pap, monkey brains, and yellow-wood. The name bois d'arc (French, meaning "bow-wood") has also been corrupted into bodark and bodock.
...Maclura pomifera in languages:
- Catalan
- Maclura
- Chinese
- 桑橙
- Croatian
- Maklura
- Croatian
- Majmunska lopta
- Croatian
- Živična jabuka
- Croatian
- Osage naranča
- Croatian
- Lučno drvo
- Croatian
- Konjska jabuka
- Croatian
- Jabučavi ančur
- Croatian
- Drvo mozak
- Croatian
- Američka maklura
- Czech
- maklura oranžová
- Danish
- Orangemorbær
- Dutch
- Osagedoorn
- English
- bois d'arc
- English
- Osage-orange
- English
- hedge apple
- English
- horse apple
- English
- Monkey Brain
- English
- Bodark
- English
- Monkey Ball
- English
- Bow-wood
- English
- Yellow-wood
- English
- Mock Orange
- English
- osage orange
- French
- Oranger des Osages
- German
- Milchorangenbaum
- German
- Osagedorn
- Hebrew
- מקלורה זהובה
- Hungarian
- Narancseper
- Hungarian
- amerikai narancseper
- Italian
- Arancio degli Osagi
- Japanese
- アメリカハリグワ
- Modern Greek
- Τοξόδεντρο
- Modern Greek
- Μακλούρα η μηλοφόρος
- Polish
- Żółtnica pomarańczowa
- Romanian
- Mărul cailor
- Russian
- Маклюра яблоконосная
- Serbian
- Маклура
- Slovak
- maklúra pomarančová
- Turkish
- yalancı portakal ağacı
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