mock_orangeEnglish

mock orange, Bumelia lycioides, Maclura pomifera, Philadelphus coronarius, Prunus caroliniana

Noun

Small shrubby deciduous yellowwood tree of south central United States having spines, glossy dark green leaves and an inedible fruit that resembles an orange, its hard orange-colored wood used for bows by Native Americans, frequently planted as boundary hedge

English: osage orange, bow wood, mock orange, Maclura pomifera

Small flowering evergreen tree of southern United States

English: cherry laurel, laurel cherry, mock orange, wild orange, Prunus caroliniana

Shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit

English: southern buckthorn, shittimwood, shittim, mock orange, Bumelia lycioides

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Large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes

English: mock orange, syringa, Philadelphus coronarius

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