It would be awesome if they could, because that would mean the possibility of a chimera and have jackfruit up north here 
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Wouldn’t it just be like growing limes on trifoliate orange rootstock in New York? The trifoliate orange will probably be fine. I have lower expectations for how the lime would fare most years.
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Itd be even worse as Jackfruits tend to die even here. Significantly less cold tolerant than lime, especially when grafted. You would have too get ridiculously lucky with the chimera having only osage orange genes for the limbs and trunk but also jackfruit genes for the flowers and fruit. The likelyhood for that would probably be less than 1%. In a hypothetical world where they are graft compatible.
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If I knew Jackfruit was graft compatible (longer than just the first 4 months after grafting) on osage orange, I would like the 1% odds of a good chimera coming out especially the way osage orange suckers from its sap layer.
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I planted this Aravaipa avocado seedling last fall in Houston after receiving fruits from California. It is planted on the east side of a green belt so it is protected from afternoon sun but gets good morning sun. During the freeze earlier this year, I propped a few branches around and over the seedling in a hope to create a micro climate but not really any cold protection measures. I believe it got to a low of 26F. The small seedling made it through which I think is remarkable!
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Qimni #9 seedlings, a type of Passiflora edulis. From a generous member of TFF. Supposed to have yellow fruit.
Taiwanese Purple seedlings, also a Passiflora edulis from the same person. Supposed to be one of the best varieties.
Theophrasta jussieui, a unusual plant from the Caribbean. Got the seeds from a fruit I tried, not really an edible but it looks awesome. Seedlings finally have its spikey leaves.
Tocoyena bullata, known as the Chocolate Fruit plant. This guy is a little over a year old now. They have been growing so well I bought some new seeds.
Annona maritima, a relative to sugar apple, soursop and pawpaw. That looks like a little flower forming below the new growth, which would mean it flowered in a little over a year from seed purchase (probably less than a year since it sprouted).
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That is cool to see. I hope that little tree does well for you. I have a grafted Aravaipa in the ground in zone 9b Northern CA Central Valley that has far and away outpaced the Reed, Hass seedlings, Hass, Bacon, Mexicola, Jan Boyce, GEM, and Stewart varieties I have in the ground or in pots. It has taken the heat, up to 113 degrees, and over 110 for days in a row, without any damage to the leaves at all. I don’t know what rootstock it was grafted onto (I bought it from the excellent folks at Epicenter Nursery in Santa Cruz) but it really is a champ for our heat and occasional frosts.
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Kyoho black grape seedlings. I bought the fruit at a local Asian market.
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she’s just practicing the art of growing a small fruit tree 
Some of the Yuzu seedling forest survived the Winter.
They were growing against the South wall of the house and under snow for some of it. I was expecting most of them to freeze, but I was also expecting a milder Winter, so, eh.
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You could try to dig up part of it to transplant or you could try grafting it to some seedlings if you want to try to save it, but there’s a good chance that the grafted part already died anyway.
Have you planted inga aka ice cream bean? It’s much better than longan and more cold hardy too!
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Kumquat is much more cold hardy than lime, maybe limeqwat isn’t any worse.
I’m pretty sure it’s more compatible with mulberry than Osage orange, but I’m not experienced by any means.
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Digging up my in-ground longan would be impossible due to the intergrown pomegranate tree. I have more hope for my seed-grown tree fruiting someday.
I have grown Inga edulis. I had a 16’ tall in-ground seedling of it in 2020, but our 9 F freeze in February 2021 killed it (completely unprotected) to the ground. It came back briefly in the summer of 2021, but died in the 12 F freeze in 2022. I lost my in-ground Rose Apples, mangos, Natal plums, olive, etc. in the same one-two punch freezes. SE Texas is not the place to grow tropical fruit species in-ground without substantial freeze protection.Here is a list of the various fruits I am either growing now, have not attempted, or have managed to kill:
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I grow about 15 different Kaki cultivars (SE Texas near Houston), including two cultivars (Hana Fuyu and Chocolate) that always have some staminate (“male”) flowers. Virtually all my persimmon fruits end up with one or more seeds in them. About 5 years ago I decided to harvest and germinate some of those mixed parentage seeds from about 5 different “female” parents. I gave most of those seedlings away locally to fellow rare fruit growers, but I kept about 8 and planted a small hedgerow of them in-ground. Will be interested to see if they all revert to a semi-wild fruit size, or if any end up producing decent fruit.
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About 8 years ago I sprouted a bunch of both golden and green kiwi seeds from store-bought fruit. I gave away most of the resultant seedlings locally (SE Texas), but planted 4 of each in-ground in my muscadine grape raised bed. Eventually some of the golden vines bloomed (all “males”). The green vines also grew well (10-15’ per year), but none ever bloomed. Eventually our summer droughts killed off all those kiwi vines. I also have 8 in-ground seedlings of hardy kiwi (Actinida arguta) from store-bought fruit, but none of those vines (now about 3 years old) are showing signs of wanting to bloom yet.
I trained them up a wrought iron fence for support:
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I don’t mean the whole thing. But I see it’s suckering from below the ground. You can probably dig with a hand spade and find a suckers with roots to prune off underground and replant that, then you’ll at least have whatever that is, chances are you could get many of those and protect them if you want.