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Is this Osage Orange?

Started by Southside, January 24, 2015, 09:00:30 PM

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Southside

Any chance these two are hedge apple?  No fruit around or it would be easy to tell, these have been under some pretty heavy pine cover for quite a while in what was pasture around 40 ish years ago.  If it is not Osage any idea what it is?  There are a few here and there on this lot.

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Texas Ranger

if those are thorns, looks like tickle tongue
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Southside

Thanks Texas Ranger, never heard of that so I googled it, the thorns look different than what I saw on line, they are longer and thinner. 
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Enough cows to ensure there is no spare time.
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WDH

I believe that it might be Bumelia lycoides, buckthorn bumelia.  Does it have little black fruits with pits and have leaves that grow in clusters?

Here are some more pics.

http://swbiodiversity.org/seinet/taxa/index.php?taxon=75349

The flowers are distinctive.  http://www.arbolesornamentales.es/Bumelialycioides.htm

http://www.dpr.ncparks.gov/photos/fromNRID.php?pid=10032

It can be very thorny. 




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Bark looks smooth for osage, maybe it is just juvenile.  I'm used to seeing it full size with furrowed bark and never paid much attention to what it looks like as a young tree.  The swooping branch in the lower foreground (unless it is just broken that way) does look like the way osage grows off at every angle.  My only other thought was could it be juvenile honey locust?

WDH, one of those links you gave is a Spanish tree site, and I notice that the common name in Spanish for Bumelia Lycioides is "Steel Wood".  Is buckthorn a particularly strong or hard wood?  I have no experience with it.
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WDH

Never gets real big, but the wood is pretty dense. 
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