Cousins Tanisha Tucker Lohse and Maria Francisco set off from their desert camp around dawn on most early summer days, in search of ripe fruit from the towering saguaro cactus, an icon of the ...

The Osage orange, whose scientific name is Maclura pomifera, is a deciduous tree native to the southern United States. Though not typically consumed due to its bitter taste and tough texture, the ...

If you were considering an Osage-orange tree because of your love of North American native trees, fear not, because there are a wide variety of other native trees that come without all of the ...

Osage orange has a USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Range of 5-9; some area’s of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula are too cold for this tree. It’s mature height is 45 feet with a width of 40 feet.

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The hedge apple, also known as Osage orange or mock orange, is the distinctive fruit of the Osage orange tree (Maclura pomifera). These large, green, wrinkled spheres have long been a source of ...

The Osage Orange tree produces a unique fruit known as the hedge apple, which, although inedible, is popular for fall decorating. The tree's wood has been used for fence posts for decades.

Figs Figs are technically not fruit. They are actually modified stems that are hollow and fleshy. However, for the purpose of this article, we will call them a fruit. Figs are relatively easy to ...

Two Osage orange trees were grown from cuttings collected from trees planted in 1865 in Springfield, Illinois, the hometown of President Abraham Lincoln. The trees are not expected to produce fruit.