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Maclura pomifera, Schneid. (M. aurantiaca, Nutt. Toxylon pomiferum, Raf.). Fig. 2292. Tree, sometimes to 60 ft., with furrowed dark orange-colored bark: branchlets light green, soon glabrous: spines 2-3 in. long: lvs. ovate to oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, soon becoming glabrous, lustrous above, 2-6 in. long: racemes of staminate fls. 1-1 ½ in. long; heads of pistillate fls. ¾ -l in. across: fr. subglobose, 4-6 in. across, ripening in autumn and soon falling. May, June. Ark. to Texas. S.S. 7:322 323. G.C. III. 16:693. G.M. 33:808, 809. V. 437. Var. inermis, Rehd. (M. aurantiaca var. inermis, Andre). A form with spineless branches. R.H. 1896, p. 33.
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