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Osage Orange

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Description:

An Osage orange, known in Osage as mi.tse.shta.hu

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Maclura pomifera (Raf.) Schneid., Maclura pomifera

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Comments (2)
keithp2012
Boy are they potent smelling! If you like citrus rub a few drops of liquid from them, you'll smell for a week!
americanmongrel
Stumbled across dozens of these luminous orbs in the dark on my friend's farm. She told me they were Osage oranges and thought they had been imported as natural hedges. I found out yesterday from an Osage and a Kiowa friend that the wood of the tree from which this fruit fell is prized for bow making!
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PublishedSeptember 14, 2010

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