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Maclura pomifera
Gren in color is a big size fruit, roughly spherical and bumpy.
Spotted at Central Park, New York.
Kingdom: Plantae Clade: Tracheophytes Clade: Angiosperms Clade: Eudicots Clade: Rosids Order: Rosales Family: Moraceae Genus: Maclura Species: M. pomifera
Spotted on Jan 3, 2021
Submitted on Mar 14, 2021
2 Comments
Thanks for your comment Neil, I was also surprised to see many of these fruits on the floor coming from a quite big tree in the west edge of the park
Nice spotting, Jordi. I've never seen or heard of this species before. I like the term and concept "ghost of evolution" mentioned in Wikipedia.