Maclura pomifera(Raf.) C.K.Schneid.

Osage-orange

WFO wfo-0000447854 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Maclura pomifera, photographed by Jeff Clark
fig. a Jeff Clark, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-04 / obs. 203343950
Maclura pomifera, photographed by Anna Hess
fig. b Anna Hess, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202494802
Maclura pomifera, photographed by Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）
fig. c Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198684123
Maclura pomifera, photographed by Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）
fig. d Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197427208
Maclura pomifera, photographed by Lauu
fig. e Lauu, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194856480
Maclura pomifera, photographed by Sam Kieschnick
fig. f Sam Kieschnick, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200740691
Maclura pomifera, photographed by Daniel McNair
fig. g Daniel McNair, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199075123
Maclura pomifera, photographed by Annika Lindqvist
fig. h Annika Lindqvist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195118780

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Flowering n = 283 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 283 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 10 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Ioxylon pomiferum Raf.
  • Joxylon pomiferum Raf.
  • Maclura aurantiaca Nutt.
  • Maclura aurantiaca var. inermis André
  • Maclura pomifera var. inermis (André) C.K.Schneid.
  • Myroxylon abruptifolium Stokes
  • Toxylon aurantiacum (Nutt.) Raf.
  • Toxylon maclura Raf.
  • Toxylon pomiferum Raf.
  • Toxylon pomiferum (Raf.) Sarg.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.