| Author | (Rafinesque) C.K. Schneider | |
| Distribution | Scattered in the Mountains and Piedmont; disjunct to the Outer Banks of Carteret County.
Apparently native to a restricted area of AR-LA-TX-OK; but early cultivated and moved around, and thus its original range is not crystal-clear. | |
| Abundance | Rare. | |
| Habitat | Stream floodplains, woods near lakeshore, thickets by brackish marshes, railroad, pine plantation, distubed woods, near old homesites. | |
| Phenology | Flowering April-June; fruiting in fall. | |
| Identification | Osage-orange has very distinctive and large, spherical, warty yellow-green fruits, the size of baseballs. Otherwise it is an indistinctive small tree, except for long spines/thorns along the branches. Leaves are alternate, ovate to elliptical and with a long drip-tip. | |
| Taxonomic Comments | Weakley (2018) states that M. tricuspidata Carriere is locally naturalized in Orange County, but we have not seen corroborating specimens.
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| State Rank | SE | |
| Global Rank | G4G5 | |
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| USACE-agcp | FACU link |
| USACE-emp | UPL link |
