Plant Maclura pomifera (Moraceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Osage-Orange; Hedge Apple

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
STIGMASTEROL	12	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SUCROSE	14	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SUGAR	0	Fruit	166640.0	216900.0	0.19	Smith, J. L. and Perino, J. V. 1981. Osage Orange (Maclura pomifera): History and Economic Uses. Economic Botany 35(1): 24-41
TANNIN	35	Wood	90000.0	100000.0	1.24	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
TOVOXANTHONE	0	Root Bark	not available	10.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TOXYLOXANTHONE-A	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TOXYLOXANTHONE-B	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TOXYLOXANTHONE-C	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TOXYLOXANTHONE-D	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
UVAOL	6	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
WARANGALONE	4	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
WARANGALONE	4	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Fruit	not available	800000.0	0.13	Smith, J. L. and Perino, J. V. 1981. Osage Orange (Maclura pomifera): History and Economic Uses. Economic Botany 35(1): 24-41
WIGHTEONE	2	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antiarrhythmic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarteriosclerotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarthritic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiasthmatic	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiatherogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatheromic	1	Cerda, J.J. Pectin in Health and Disease. HortScience, 25(12): 1485, 1990.
Antiatherosclerotic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antibacterial	12	Recio, M. C., Rios, J. L., and Villar, A., A review of some antimicrobial compounds isolated from medicinal plants reported in the literature 1978-1988, Phytotherapy Research, 3(4), 1989, 117-125.
Anticancer	6	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast)	1	Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticapillary-Fragility	1	Merck 7th Ed.
Anticarcinogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticarcinomic (Breast)	1	Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Anticariogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticataract	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticervicaldysplasic	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiCFS	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticirrhotic	1	Duke, 1992 *