Osage-orange
Maclura pomiferaOsage-orange is a tree native to the Texas Hill Country that grows 20–40 ft tall and 40 ft wide. It wants full sun or part shade and medium water, and handles clay soil. Blooms green in late spring. Good for birds.
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The facts
6 sources- Type
- Tree
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade (5–8 hrs of direct sun)
- Water
- Medium
- Height
- 20–40 ft
- Spread
- 40 ft
- Bloom
- Late Spring · green
- Foliage
- Deciduous or dies back in winter
- Soil
- Takes clay · recorded on clay, dry, loam, moist, well drained
- Wildlife
- Supports birds
Where it grows
Recorded in these EPA Level IV ecoregions in the Austin and Hill Country launch area:
1,637 occurrence records in Central Texas (GBIF).
Can you buy it?
Also grows here — hard to find. Native and recorded growing in Central Texas, but not on the grower stock lists we read. Sourcing varies: some are stocked widely, others you will have to hunt for.
also grows from seed It starts readily from seed, so a packet from a native-seed supplier, or seed collected with permission, is often the easiest way to get a plant no nursery pots.