This fast-growing, North American native fruit tree may sound appealing, but there are several reasons you won't actually want to plant it in your yard.

It is most commonly known as Osage orange, but other names include hedge, hedge-apple, yellow-wood, bowwood, Osage apple, and ...

Most notable among those is the wood of Maclura pomifera, otherwise known as bois d’arc, hedge apple, or Osage orange. Its wood is very dense, and it burns quite slowly, but it’s a light show ...

The yellow wood of the Osage orange is hard, strong and durable. It can be worked while it is green, but once it dries it is extremely hard.