Title of object

Fruit of osage orange (Maclura pomifera)

Object description

"Osage Orange" (Maclura pomifera) is a tree species from Moraceae family with wide crested and native to North America. It can grow up to 20 m. The fruit of the tree is pistachio green in color and 10 cm in diameter. The fruits form with a combination of a large number of juicy and seedy fruits. Milk secrets when crashed and due to the fungal and antioxidant compounds fruits are inedible. It is often used for reforestation of roads and streets, and also as fence plant. (Photo: Genclik parkı, An...

Language of object

Turkish

Author(s) / Publisher

Zeynel Cebeci

Discipline(s)

Forestry Related

Keywords

landscape plants, fence plant, trees, Moraceae

Technical format

Image

Intended end-user role

Learner

Learning resource type

Photo

Typical age range

18U

Copyright - Restrictions

This resource is licensed under the license(CC-BY-NC-ND) Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported

Cost with use

No

Source code available

No