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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">The spiny orange of Able's bow. Wolfe has a hand carved walking stick of osage orange - carved by Joe Mayhew.</FONT>
<BR><B><I><FONT SIZE=6 FACE="Times New Roman">Maclura pomifera</FONT></I></B>
<BR><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Times New Roman">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Osage-orange, Horse-apple or Bois D'Arc even know as the Drewedic Bullochus (</FONT><I><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Maclura pomifera</FONT></I><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">) is </FONT><A HREF="file:///wiki/Plant_sexuality"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">dioeceous</FONT></U></A><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> plant species, with male and female </FONT><A HREF="file:///wiki/Flower"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">flowers</FONT></U></A><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> on different plants. It is a small </FONT><A HREF="file:///wiki/Deciduous"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">deciduous</FONT></U></A><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> </FONT><A HREF="file:///wiki/Tree"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">tree</FONT></U></A><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> or large </FONT><A HREF="file:///wiki/Shrub"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">shrub</FONT></U></A><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">, typically growing to 8</FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma">–</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">15 metres (26</FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma">–</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">49 ft) tall. The </FONT><A HREF="file:///wiki/Fruit"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">fruit</FONT></U></A><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">, a </FONT><A HREF="file:///wiki/Multiple_fruit"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">multiple fruit</FONT></U></A><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">, is roughly spherical, but bumpy, and 7-15 cm in diameter, and it is filled with a sticky white </FONT><A HREF="file:///wiki/Latex"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">latex</FONT></U></A><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> </FONT><A HREF="file:///wiki/Sap"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">sap</FONT></U></A><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">. In fall, its color turns a bright yellow-green and it has a faint odor similar to that of </FONT><A HREF="file:///wiki/Orange_(fruit)"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">oranges</FONT></U></A><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">.</FONT><A HREF=""><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">[1]</FONT></U></A></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">The Osage-orange is commonly used as a tree row </FONT><A HREF="file:///wiki/Windbreak"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">windbreak</FONT></U></A><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> in prairie states, which gives it one of its colloquial names, "hedge apple".</FONT></P>
<P><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">The trees acquired the name</FONT></B><B><I> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">bois d'arc</FONT></I><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">, or "bow-wood", from early </FONT></B><A HREF="file:///wiki/France"><B><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">French</FONT></U></B></A><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> settlers who observed the wood being used for war clubs and bow-making by </FONT></B><A HREF="file:///wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States"><B><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">Native Americans</FONT></U></B></A><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">.</FONT></B><A HREF=""><B><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">[3]</FONT></U></B></A><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> Meriwether Lewis was told that the people of the </FONT></B><A HREF="file:///wiki/Osage_Nation"><B><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">Osage Nation</FONT></U></B></A><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> "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."</FONT></B></P>
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