osage trees

[Blaino]

.... do they grew in the south (south caolina)?  I did the search on here and didn't find anything.  for some reason I can't find the information I wnat with the search.  Google didn't help either...  Thanks.

[**DONOTDELETE**]

They are also known as Hedge Apples

[arrowwood]

The USDA plants database shows them growing in a few places in South Carolina. I'll try to get this link working... one way or another

  http://plants.usda.gov/java/county?state_name=SouthCarolina&statefips=45&symbol=MAPO

[Blaino]

yea google gives me all kinds of names and ways to prepare the fruit.  it tells me that tx, olk, and ar are the extent of its natural range... i just thought it would be more wildly ranging.

[bigbadjon]

That usda search is pretty detailed. The native range of osage is'nt very large but people planted them as fences and hedge rows all over the continent so they have been introduced far outside their range.

[arrowwood]

Osage orange's (Maclura pomifera) native range was pretty limited a few centuries ago, but it has spread all over the country now.

 http://www.na.fs.fed.us/pubs/silvics_manual/volume_2/maclura/pomifera.htm

 http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=MAPO

[**DONOTDELETE**]

There are Streets in Ohio that are lined with them..

[Pat B]

Chris Cade(Mechslasher)lives in Abbeville and has found quite a few osages in that area. I remember seeing a few in Savannah when I was growing up.

[sweeney3]

www.osageorange.com

Also (mainly), try the Primitive Archer forum.  There are all kinds of osage fans over there.  They'll know whatever you want to know.

[Pepper]

Kansas has it's fair share.

[Blaino]

thanks for the information fellas

[FubarFred]

Blaino, I'll be coming to my house in Leesville next week. I have a handful of Osage nuts I'm going to plant on my property. I've a bunch so if you need any seeds let me know.
Fred...

[Stumpkiller]

Also locally called: Hedge, Horse apple, Bois D'arc, Bodark, Fence tree (there's a lot of it holding old rusted wire)