Nyssa sylvatica, commonly known as tupelo, black tupelo, black gum or sour gum, [2] [a] is a medium-sized deciduous tree native to eastern North America from the coastal Northeastern United States and southern Ontario south to central Florida and eastern Texas, as well as Mexico.

Black gum is a large deciduous shade tree in the Nyssaceae family native to the United States. It is found naturally in flooded swamps, pinelands, and pocosins where it can grow 60 to 100 feet tall and 20 to 40 feet wide. It prefers full sun to partial shade and moist, well-drained acidic soils.

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.

Swamp tupelo (Nyssa sylvatica var. biflora) is also called blackgum; another common name is swamp blackgum. Habitat Native Range. Swamp tupelo grows chiefly in the Coastal Plains from Delaware, eastern Maryland, and southeastern Virginia, south to southern Florida and west to eastern Texas. Its range extends north up the Mississippi Valley to ...

Nyssa sylvatica, commonly called sour gum, is a slow-growing, deciduous, Missouri native tree which occurs in a wide range of soils south of the Missouri River in the southeastern quarter of the State.

Nyssa biflora, commonly referred to as the swamp tupelo, or swamp black-gum [2] is a species of tupelo that lives in wetland habitats in the United States. [1]

Oct 8, 2013 · Tupelo was a native American food, and the name “tupelo” comes from the native American muscogee language, meaning “swamp tree”, referring to the southern species of tupelo. Edibility and Culinary Use. Nyssa sylvatica, Black Tupelo …

The Vernon Black Gum Swamps are a rare natural community found at the edge of the normal range for this type of wetland and contains some very old trees; some black gum trees aged at over 400 years old.

The common name of this wetland tree, tupelo, comes from the Creek Indian word for swamp. With distinctive stout and many-branched trunks, black tupelo is easily recognized in wet forests. The trunks often die from the top, giving its crown a scraggly appearance.

The Water Tupelo (N. aquatica), also called the Cotton Gum, or Swamp Gum, grows in — taah-daah — swamps of the southeastern and gulf coasts states and in the Mississippi River valley to southern Illinois. It grows in pure stands or in with bald cypress and other swamp trees.