White Shield 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 thornless spreading branches.
• Glossy oval dark green leaves turn golden-yellow in the fall.
• Bark, wood and roots are an orange colour.
• 'White Shield' is a fruitless, thornless cultivar.
• Commonly used for specimen, screening (privacy), roadside planting.
• Grows best in full sun to partial shade.