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.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
MACLURAXANTHONE	0	Root Bark	1900.0	27250.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MACLURIN	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Smith, J. L. and Perino, J. V. 1981. Osage Orange (Maclura pomifera): History and Economic Uses. Economic Botany 35(1): 24-41
MACLURIN	1	Wood	not available	not available	not available	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
MORIN	15	Bark	not available	1000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MORIN	15	Heart Wood	not available	500.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MORIN	15	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MORIN	15	Wood	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NARINGENIN	56	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NITROGEN	0	Fruit	not available	25600.0	0.77	Smith, J. L. and Perino, J. V. 1981. Osage Orange (Maclura pomifera): History and Economic Uses. Economic Botany 35(1): 24-41
NORARTOCARPENONE	0	Heart Wood	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NORATHYRIOL	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
OLEIC-ACID	18	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OSAJAXANTHONE	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OSAJAXANTHONE	0	Root Bark	175.0	639.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OSAJIN	0	Fruit	9000.0	64000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OSAJIN	0	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OXYRESVERATROL	1	Bark	not available	5714.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OXYRESVERATROL	1	Heart Wood	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OXYRESVERATROL	1	Wood	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
AntiPMS	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipneumonic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipodriac	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antipolio	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipoliomyelitic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiprogestational	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiproliferant	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiproliferative	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostaglandin	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostanoid	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostatadenomic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antiprostatitic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprotozoal	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipruritic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antipsoriac	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipurpuric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipyretic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiradicular	7	Planta Medica, 56(6): 695, 1990.
AntiRaynaud's	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antirenitic	1	Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.