(urth) The spiny orange - we used to throw the fruit at each other as kids and call them stink bombs.

[Jerry Friedman]

Do you have any basis for that extremely strange claim about
dioecious plants?  Is there even a single example?

Jerry Friedman

--- On Tue, 11/3/09, brunians at brunians.org <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:

> From: brunians at brunians.org <brunians at brunians.org>
> Pardon, I meant seperate male and
> female plants, not seperate flowers on
> the same stem. .
> 
> 
> > These plants with seperate male and female flowers are
> mostly ancient cultivers.
> >
> >
> > .
> >
> >
> >
> >> The spiny orange of Able's bow.    Wolfe
> has a hand carved walking stick
> >> of osage orange - carved by Joe Mayhew.
> >> Maclura pomifera
> >>>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
> >> Osage-orange, Horse-apple or Bois D'Arc even know
> as the Drewedic
> >> Bullochus (Maclura pomifera) is dioeceous
> </wiki/Plant_sexuality>  plant
> >> species, with male and female flowers
> </wiki/Flower>  on different
> >> plants. It is a small deciduous
> </wiki/Deciduous>  tree </wiki/Tree> 
> or
> >> large shrub </wiki/Shrub> , typically
> growing to 8-15 metres (26-49 ft)
> >> tall. The fruit </wiki/Fruit> , a multiple
> fruit </wiki/Multiple_fruit>
> >> , is roughly spherical, but bumpy, and 7-15 cm in
> diameter, and it is
> >> filled with a sticky white latex
> </wiki/Latex>  sap </wiki/Sap> . In
> >> fall, its color turns a bright yellow-green and it
> has a faint odor
> >> similar to that of oranges
> </wiki/Orange_(fruit)> .[1] <>
> >> The Osage-orange is commonly used as a tree row
> windbreak
> >> </wiki/Windbreak>  in prairie states,
> which gives it one of its
> >> colloquial names, "hedge apple".
> >> The trees acquired the name bois d'arc, or
> "bow-wood", from early French
> >> </wiki/France>  settlers who observed
> the wood being used for war clubs
> >> and bow-making by Native Americans
> >>
> </wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States> .[3]
> <>  Meriwether Lewis
> >> was told that the people of the Osage Nation
> </wiki/Osage_Nation>
> >> "esteem the wood of this tree for the making of
> their bows, that they
> >> travel many hundred miles in quest of it." Many
> modern bowyers assert
> >> the wood of the Osage Orange is superior even to
> English Yew for this
> >> purpose, though this opinion is by no means
> unanimous. The trees are
> >> also known as "bordarch" trees, most likely
> originating from a
> >> corruption of "bois d'arc."
> >>
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