Osage orange (hedge apple)

Knowing it

Thorny, with orange-brown furrowed bark and softball-sized green fruit. Native to the southwest corner, planted as hedgerows statewide before barbed wire.

What a tree company sees

The hardest, heaviest common wood in Missouri and nearly rot-proof; dulls saws fast. Thorns and milky sap make it a disliked removal.

Recorded in 95 counties

• Adair County
• Andrew County
• Atchison County
• Audrain County
• Barry County
• Barton County
• Bates County
• Benton County
• Bollinger County
• Boone County
• Buchanan County
• Caldwell County
• Callaway County
• Cape Girardeau County
• Carroll County
• Carter County
• Cass County
• Cedar County
• Chariton County
• Christian County
• Clark County
• Clay County
• Clinton County
• Cole County
• Cooper County
• Dade County
• Daviess County
• DeKalb County
• Douglas County
• Dunklin County
• Franklin County
• Gentry County
• Greene County
• Grundy County
• Harrison County
• Henry County
• Hickory County
• Holt County
• Howard County
• Howell County
• Jackson County
• Jasper County
• Jefferson County
• Johnson County
• Lafayette County
• Lawrence County
• Lewis County
• Lincoln County
• Linn County
• Livingston County
• Macon County
• Madison County
• Marion County
• McDonald County
• Mercer County
• Miller County
• Mississippi County
• Moniteau County
• Monroe County
• Montgomery County
• New Madrid County
• Newton County
• Nodaway County
• Osage County
• Ozark County
• Pettis County
• Phelps County
• Pike County
• Platte County
• Polk County
• Pulaski County
• Putnam County
• Ralls County
• Randolph County
• Ray County
• Ripley County
• Saline County
• Schuyler County
• Scotland County
• Shannon County
• St. Charles County
• St. Clair County
• St. Francois County
• St. Louis City
• St. Louis County
• Ste. Genevieve County
• Stone County
• Taney County
• Texas County
• Vernon County
• Warren County
• Washington County
• Wayne County
• Webster County
• Wright County

From GBIF occurrence records. No record does not mean absent.