Freshly cut Osage-orange wood is a vibrant yellow. The color mellows into a rich brown with age. Woodworkers use it for musical instruments, bowls, knife handles and other specialty items.

It is most commonly known as Osage orange, but other names include hedge, hedge-apple, yellow-wood, bowwood, Osage apple, and bodark (from the French bois d’arc, meaning bow wood).

Osage orange is exceptionally hard and strong. The bending strength (MOR) is over 20,000 psi (50 percent more than red oak). Hardness is around 2000 pounds (100 percent more than red oak).

Osage Orange (Maclura pomifera) is identifiable by its simple, glossy, ovate leaves, typically 2-5 inches long, which turn yellow in fall. The tree produces large, round, bumpy fruits, known as ...

The Osage orange tree, native to Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas, was once prized for its hardy wood and thorny branches, but its supposed ability to repel insects and spiders has been debunked by ...

Osage Orange Tree To Be Distributed In Wood Lottery Thursday Wednesday, March 27, 2013 The Chattanooga Department of Public Works will conduct a wood lottery on Thursday, at 10 a.m.

The best-known tree on the lawn of the Hamilton County Courthouse was felled by a storm overnight. A very large osage orange tree on the south lawn was toppled. The tree, which stood near the ...

The Osage orange tree, native to Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas, was once prized for its hardy wood and thorny branches, but its supposed ability to repel insects and spiders has been debunked by sc… ...