Common Name - Osage Orange

Scientific Name - Maclura pomifera

Osage Orange Trees on the east property line of Riddle Elementary School in Mattoon,Illinois.

Trees located on the east property line of
Riddle Elementary School in
Mattoon, Illinois

 Description: a medium-size tree, often with crooked trunk and irregular crown composed of stiff, spiny, interlacing branches. It will reach a height of 50 feet with a diameter of 2 feet.

Trees located at Douglas-Hart Nature Center
Mattoon, Illinois
The Osage Orange Tree
Researched by Krysten and Darleedria

Description:
a medium-size tree, often with crooked trunk and irregular crown composed of stiff, spiny, interlacing branches.  It will reach a height of 50 feet with a diameter of 2 feet.

Habitat:
river valleys with moist soils, originally the rich bottomlands along the Arkansas and Red Rivers, in eastern Texas and the southern parts of Arkansas and Oklahoma.
     Range:  Native range uncertain;  widely planted throughout much of the East.

© Riddle Elementary School, Mattoon, IL - 2003

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