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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.
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.
Black Tupelo (Nyssa sylvatica Marshall) Also known as black gum, blackgum, sour gum, tupelo, beetlebung; also classified as Nyssa silvatica (Misspelling).
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.
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.
