Maclura Pomifera

Scientific Name: Maclura pomifera

Common Name: osage orange

Symbol: MAPO

Category: Dicot

Genus: Maclura

Family: Moraceae

Family Common Name: Mulberry family

Order: Urticales

Class: Magnoliopsida

Subkingdom: Tracheobionta

Kingdom: Plantae

Duration: Perennial

Growth Habit: Tree, Shrub

Native Status: L48 (N), CAN (I)

Flower Color: Green

Flower Conspicuous: No

Foliage Color: Green

Foliage Texture: Coarse

Fruit Color: Orange

Edible: No

Osage-orange fruit

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Scientific Name: Maclura pomifera

Common Name(s): Bodark, Horse apple, osage orange

Edible: no

Medicinal: yes

Parts Used: stem, fruit

charibelle18 21 Nov, 2010	The fruit has a pleasant and mild odor, but is inedible for the most part. Although it is not strongly poisonous, eating it may cause vomiting. However, the seeds of the fruit are edible. The fruit is sometimes torn apart by squirrels to get at the seeds, but few other native animals make use of it as a food source.
Current Rating: 0.5000

charibelle18
21 Nov, 2010

Maclura is closely related to the genus Cudrania, and hybrids between the two genera have been produced. In fact, some botanists recognize a more broadly defined Maclura that includes species previously included in Cudrania and other genera of Moraceae. Osajin and Pomiferin are flavonoid pigments present in the wood and fruit, comprising about 10% of the fruit's dry weight. The plant also contains the flavonol morin. Recent research suggests that elemol, another component extractable from the fruit, shows promise as a mosquito repellent with similar activity to DEET in contact and residual repellency. Today, the fruit is sometimes used to deter spiders, cockroaches, boxelder bugs, crickets, fleas, and other arthropods. An article posted by the Burke Museum in Washington State claims that this usage, in the case of spiders, has no evidence to support it.

Current Rating: 0.0000

ravenscar 14 Jan, 2011	according to the "Medicinal Plants of the United States" by Arnold & Connie Krochmal, quote,"The boiled root yielded a decoction once used to bathe irritated eyes"
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ravenscar 14 Jan, 2011	and the bodark should be bois d'ark,like the town. other common names: bodoch, bodeck, bow-wood osage appletree, hedge, hedge apple, mockorange, osage apple, wild orange.
Current Rating: 0.0000

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