Osage Orange

This tough, adaptable native tree with a broadly rounded crown, historically is valued for its exceptional hardness and hedge-forming qualities, and prized in modern landscapes for its golden-yellow autumn foliage and interesting grapefruit-sized fruit.

• Broadly rounded crown with thorny spreading branches.
• Glossy oval dark green leaves turn golden-yellow in the fall.
• Dioecious: insignificant greenish male and female flowers on separate trees.
• Female flowers give way to grapefruit-sized green fruit.
• Bark, wood and roots are an orange colour.
• Commonly used for screening (privacy), specimen.
• Grows best in full sun.