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Maclura pomifera is definitely native to the Americas, although "bois d'arc" appears to be a fairly widespread local name.

Urban Wildlife Watch: Osage Orange Trees DNLee 2008

Down here in Texas, I think it's the same tree that is called bois d'arc.

Urban Wildlife Watch: Osage Orange Trees DNLee 2008

Their front yard, sandy and sloping, with two big bois d'arc trees at each side of the yard that ran right up to the TeePee roadbed.

Once Upon a Railroad The Daily Growler 2006

SOURCIL, _m. _, poils en forme d'arc au-dessus de l'oeil.

French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann

If a woman be homely as a bois d'arc hedge she may suppose the world supercharged with St. Anthonys, for she has not been much sought; but if she be beautiful and has mingled much with men she realizes all too well that the story of Joseph is a foolish romance or that Mrs. Potiphar was quite passe.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1. 1898

The valleys are rich, and most of them kept in a high state of cultivation and improvement, the fields generally being enclosed with good, substantial stone fences, although some few were hedged with bois d'arc.

John M. Copley. A Sketch of the Battle of Franklin, Tenn. ... 1893

Their batteries immediately opened upon us with a perfect hailstorm of grape and canister, and when within a short distance of their main line, we encountered the abatis, or bois d'arc hedge, and also the line of

John M. Copley. A Sketch of the Battle of Franklin, Tenn. ... 1893

She wants to know if she shall send them around on Bois d'arc or keep them 'til you return.

Rolling Stones O. Henry 1886

In front of the tents stood tall spears, with shields of _parfleche_ leaning against them; also long bows of _bois d'arc (Maclura aurantica_), and shorter ones of horn -- the horns of the mountain-ram.

The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness Mayne Reid 1850

We had found some of the _bois d'arc_, or "Osage orange," as it is called, growing in the valley.

The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness Mayne Reid 1850