In addition to traditional uses for furniture and cabinets, if you need a beautiful red hard floor or are making furniture for outdoor use, including hot tubs, this is the premium species.

For their weight, the spruces are exceptionally strong.

Soft and low strength, but decay resistant.

Osage Orange (Maclura pomifera) derived its common name from the Osage Indians in Oklahoma and Texas and the orange-smelling fruits. The Latin name comes from William Maclura, an American geologist (1763-1840), and from the grapefruit-size, heavily wrinkled, spherical pomes or apples (inedible for humans) it produces. Many a farm child has used these fruits for baseballs!