12,400.
Remarks.
The astringency of unripe fruit is due to tannic acid. The dried and roasted seeds have been used for coffee.[59] Heartwood is not greatly developed in trees under one hundred years of age. [p113]
FOOTNOTE
[59] U. S. Dispensatory.
Osage Orange. Maclura aurantiaca Nutt. Toxylon pomiferum Raf.
Nomenclature. (Sudworth.)
Osage Orange (local and common name).
Bois D'Arc (La., Tex., Mo.).
Bodark, Bodock (Kans.).