Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
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Moraceae | Maclura tricuspidata | Cudrania, Strawberry-bush, Che Fruit Tree, Mandarin Melonberry | Forest edges, suburban woodlands, escaped and naturalized from plantings. | Native of China and Korea, where cultivated as a food for silkworms and for its fruit (che). Naturalized in Orange County, NC, in McIntosh County, GA (Jones & Coile 1988), in Clay County, TN (D. Estes, pers. comm., 2015), and at other widely scattered locations in the South, where recommended as a hedge plant since at least 1940 (Rehder 1940). | |
Moraceae | Maclura pomifera | Osage-orange, Bow-wood, Bois-d'arc, Hedge-apple | Dry-mesic to mesic upland forests and woodlands, bottomland and riparian forests, stream banks, fencerows, old fields, pastures, prairies, roadsides, naturalized beyond its native range from extensive planting in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. | The native distribution is obscured by early introduction eastwards and spread from cultivation, probably native to an area from sw. AR and OK south to w. LA and e. and c. TX, but possibly native also in areas like the Black Belt of MS and AL. |
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