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Black Gum
Latin Name:
Nyssa sylvatica
location:
northeastern United States down through Texas
The Black Gum, which has for Latin name Nyssa sylvatica, lives around northeastern United States down through Texas. It can generally be recognized as a large deciduous tree, making it a beautiful plant In the summer, its foliage is more or less alternate leaf arrangement and in the automn it can be described as florescent yellow to orange to red or purple colors. The Black Gum (Nyssa sylvatica) grows flowers that are not ornamentally significant and its fruits are more or less bluish-black drupes. It has a special bark, where we can find dark gray brown bark color on it. An important information to know regarding the way it is cultured is that has a taproot, making it difficult to transplant However, a bad thing with the Black Gum can be that leaf spot It can be easy to recognize a Nyssa sylvatica with its dark blue fruit on female trees only. The Black Gum's reproduction is pretty interesting since it is mainly done by seed
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