Maclura

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Read about Maclura in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Maclura (after Wm. Maclure, an American geologist). Syn. Toxylon. Moraceae, Osage Orange. Bow- Wood. Tree chiefly grown as a hedge plant, also planted as an ornamental tree for its handsome bright green foliage and the conspicuous orange-like fruit. Deciduous, with milky sap: branches with axillary thorns: lvs. alternate, entire, slender-petioled, with minute stipules: fls. dioecious, minute, apetalous; calyx 4-lobed; the staminate pedicelled, in pendulous racemes on spur-like branchlets of the previous year; stamens 4; pistillate sessile, in axillary dense globose heads on short peduncles; ovary 1-celled with a long filiform plumose stigma: drupelets oblong, collected into a globose compound; fr. mamillate on the surface.—One species in N. Amer. It is sometimes described under Toxylon, but this name is replaced with Maclura by the "nomina conservanda" of the international rules. The osage orange is a medium-sized spiny tree with spreading branches, forming an open irregular head, with rather large bright green leaves changing to clear yellow in fall and with inconspicuous greenish flowers followed by greenish yellow orange-like but inedible fruits in the pistillate tree. It is hardy as far north as Massachusetts. It is not particular as to the soil; its roots are very long and voracious feeders. Much planted for hedges chiefly in the Middle West. The bark of the root is used as a yellow dye; that of the trunk sometimes for tanning leather. In Europe the tree is sometimes grown as food for the silkworm. Propagation is usually by seeds, which germinate readily; also by root-cuttings and by greenwood cuttings under glass. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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