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The black gum reaches a mature size of 40 to 70 feet tall but typically reaches 20 to 30 feet in cultivation. Trunk diameter is typically 1 to 2 feet but can reach 4 to 5 feet in taller specimens. The tree prefers average, medium to wet soils in full sun.
Black Gum Tree has strikingly brilliant red to deep purple foliage in the fall. The small blue berries can be a nuisance as they attract birds. The name Tupelo comes from the native American muscogee language meaning "swamp tree". The fruit of the black gum tree is used to make pies, jams and drinks.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
