Toxylon. Maclura pomifera.

Botanical name: 

Toxylon. Maclura pomifera (Raf.) Schneider. (Maclura aurantiaca Nutt.) (Fam. Moraceae.) Osage Orange.—The bark of the root of this tree, which is indigenous in the Southern United States, is said to be considerably used in making a yellow dye. Alex. King has found in it moric and moritannic acids. (A. J. P., xlvi, 257.)


The Dispensatory of the United States of America, 1918, was edited by Joseph P. Remington, Horatio C. Wood and others.