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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. There are from one to three fruits together on a long slender stalk. They are a valuable energy food for birds, especially the American robin.
18 lip 2024 · The black tupelo fruit is a small drupe, only about 10 millimeters in diameter. It’s ovoid or oval-shaped, with a smooth, slightly oily skin that ripens to a deep black-purple color in the fall. The fruits don’t grow individually.
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.
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.
27 sie 2021 · Songbirds love black gum fruits which ripen about the same time as the leaves start to turn colors. Photo credit: Wendy Cutler, CC-By-SA 2.0 Although black gum is native throughout most of the eastern U.S., how much fall color an individual plant displays and exactly when it occurs can vary.
The black gum is grown as an ornamental for its beautiful, scarlet red, fall color and for its shiny, dark green leaves in the summer. Its native range includes southern Ontario to the Central and Eastern United States, and Mexico.
8 paź 2024 · A medium-sized tree, Black Gum grows anywhere from 30′ to 50′ tall and 20′ to 30′ wide. Clusters of small greenish-yellow flowers bloom in May/June, followed by juicy, bluish-black fruit that ripens in fall. Black Gum shouldn’t be confused with Sweet Gum (unrelated) whose fruit is spiny and messy.
