Sour Gum Tree Fruit

The star anise pod is about 7 shikimic acid the pine needles 3 and the sweet gum 1 7 to 3.

Sour gum tree fruit. With cultivation it grows to about 25 feet by age 30. 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. It has blue black fruit that is normally left on the tree after the red foliage drops in the fall. Nyssa sylvatica grows to 20 25 metres 66 82 ft tall rarely to 35 metres 115 ft with a trunk diameter of 50 100 centimetres 20 39 in rarely up to 170 centimetres 67 in.

The flowers are unisexual. The bark is dark gray and flaky when young but it becomes furrowed with age resembling alligator hide on very. The chemical breaks down into ethylene a naturally occurring compound that sweet gum produces when under stress. 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.

They are sometimes eaten raw but humans tend to put them in juice preservatives or pies. The name sour gum refers to the fruit. Introducing such a chemical alters sweet gum s natural hormone levels prompting the tree to abort its fruits. Mature plant 60 maccadamia tree from 30 red or white dragon fruit plant 10 each or 10 plants in a large 30cm pot for 45.

Both male and female flowers are yellow or white forming in the early spring. Sweet gum bark and leaves have some but the highest concentration is in the infertile seeds. Bearing dragon fruit plants up to 2m from 25 to 35 each. Jack fruit tree up to 1 5m tall from 15 to 75 avocado tree 60cm up to 1m tall from 20 to 45.

There are from one to three fruits together on a long slender stalk. If a sweet gum is flowering when the chemical induces ethylene production it responds by aborting the flowers. 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. Fruit is an elliptical blue black fleshy droop that ripens in late summer through fall.

Its bitter fleshy blue black fruit is favored by bears and birds and follows pollination of female trees. The fall display includes foliage in shades of orange red purple and yellow. These trees typically have a straight trunk with the branches extending outward at right angles. Linnaeus gave to this water loving genus the name of nyssa the water nymph who reared the infant bacchus.

One of the first trees to show color in fall sour gum tree s glossy green leaves turn scarlet. It was the fashion for the old botanists to give new plants names derived from classical mythology without much thought of appropriateness. The flowers of black gum are light green in color and form into pendulous clusters in the spring. Dwaft sour sop up to 1 2m tall from 25 to 70.