mock orange


Meanings

  • large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes
  • shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit
  • small flowering evergreen tree of southern United States
  • small shrubby deciduous yellowwood tree of south central United States having spines, glossy dark green leaves and an inedible fruit that resembles an orange; its hard orange-colored wood used for bows by Native Americans; frequently planted as boundary hedge