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27 sty 2022 · The black tupelo tree is an attractive ornamental tree native to North America. Also called the black gum or sour gum, the deciduous tree is identified by its oval, dark green glossy leaves, bark resembling alligator skin, clusters of greenish-white flowers, and bluish-black fruits.
Black Tupelo (Nyssa sylvatica Marshall) Also known as black gum, blackgum, sour gum, tupelo, beetlebung; also classified as Nyssa silvatica (Misspelling).
8 paź 2013 · Black Tupelo (Nyssa sylvatica) , also called black gum tree is a North Eastern American native tree producing edible fruit in the fall.
Black gum or black tupelo is a medium-sized, native deciduous tree in the Nyssaceae family. Growing throughout North Carolina in dry upland forests, occasionally in bottomlands, savannas, swamp margins, and upland depressions that are occasionally flooded.
Fruit. The fruit is a black-blue, ovoid stone fruit, about 10 mm long with a thin, oily, bitter-to-sour tasting flesh and very popular with small bird species, particularly the American robin. There are from one to three fruits together on a long slender stalk.
27 sie 2021 · Black Gum General Biology and Life History. Black gum (Nyssa sylvatica) is also commonly called blackgum, black tupelo, and sour gum. It is native to most of the eastern half of the U.S. and grows in a wide variety of soils. It can grow up to 100 feet tall, but 20-30 feet is more normal.
To get fruit you need to have both a male and a female. The mature dark blue fruits are easy to spot among the delightful burnt orange-to-crimson leaves on the female tree. The fruit is just under one centimetre (about two-fifths of an inch) in length.
