Flora of New Zealand Series

Osage orange

Spinous, deciduous tree to 20 m high. Lvs ovate, acute to acuminate, obtuse to truncate at base, entire, glabrous to moderately hairy above, scarcely to moderately hairy below, 5-12 cm long; young lvs densely hairy. Petiole < blade. Spines stout, 0.5-2 cm long. Stipules 2 per node, lanceolate, hairy. Infls globose to ± elongated. Fls greenish; ♂ fls with anthers inflexed in bud. Syncarp rough, orange, subglobose, 7-14 cm diam. Achene ellipsoid, c. 7 mm long.

N.: recorded as established in the wild from seed of cultivated plants at Otara Valley, Opotiki District.

S. North America 1977

Waste places.