Sour Gum Tree Bark
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It goes by many other common or local names including sorrel tree sorrel gum sour gum arrow wood elk tree lily of the valley tree and titi tree.
Sour gum tree bark. The flowers of black gum are light green in color and form into pendulous clusters in the spring. This video is not intended to treat diagnose or cure any illness. Twigs green to orange often downy. The bark is dark gray and flaky when young but it becomes furrowed with age resembling alligator hide on very.
Sour gum grows from maine west to new york extreme southern ontario central michigan illinois central missouri and south to central florida. Wood heavy tough cross grained soft not durable. Bark matures to medium gray and resembles alligator hide. On younger trees pale brown or grey.
Bark rough dark grey broken into many sided plates. These trees typically have a straight trunk with the branches extending outward at right angles. Black gum nyssa sylvatica also called sour gum or black tupelo tupelo tree family nyssaceae prized for its brilliant scarlet autumnal foliage. The bark is reddish brown and broken into deep irregular ridges and diamond shaped plates.
It is found in moist areas of the eastern united states from maine south to the gulf coast and westward to oklahoma. The names used for this tree are black gum sourgum yellow gum black tupelo cotton gum tupelo gum pepperidge swamp tupelo swamp black gum sour gum or tupelo. Matthew barlow nursery manager at earthworksjax shares the history and continuing legacy through suckering of a sweet gum tree at the nursery. This black gum was started from seed 24 years ago.
As the tree develops we can expect the bark to become deeply furrowed and scaly. Summer leaves are a dark green with a high gloss appearance but the most spectacular part of this tree is the fall foliage with many shades of yellow orange bright red purple or scarlet that may appear on the same branch. Sour gum or black gum tree tupelo pepperidge sour or black gum nyssa sylvatica marsh a medium sized tree of variable shape 50 to 100 feet high with short rigid twiggy horizontal branches. The bark is smooth and reddish brown.
Fruit is bluish black and is loved by many birds. Sweet gum is a well known tree i. We can already start to see some of the bark becoming scaly if we look at the trunk close enough. The range of.