Wholesale
Nursery Stock Price List
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Nyssa
Sylvatica
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Blackgum
or Black Tupelo |
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Our current inventory of Nyssa Sylvatica
(Blackgum or Black Tupelo) is presented below by three (3) available sizes
along with their individual wholesale price (cost varies per size and quantity).
Nyssa
Sylvatica (Blackgum or Black Tupelo)
| also
known as: |
Black
Gum
Beetlebung |
Pepperidge
Sourgum
Tupelo |
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| 2.0"
(inches) |
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$
130.00 |
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2.5" (inches)
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$ 170.00
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3.0" (inches)
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$ 200.00
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The
Gerdes Fact Sheet
Scientific
Classification
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Kingdom...:
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Plantae |
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Division...:
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Magnoliophyta |
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Class...:
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Magnoliopsida |
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Order...:
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Cornales |
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Family...:
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Cornaceae |
| Subfamily...: |
Nyssaceae |
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Genus...:
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Nyssa |
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Species...:
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Nyssa Sylvatica |
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The Nyssa Sylvatica is commonly known
as the Blackgum or Black Tupelo as well as Black Gum, Beetlebung, Pepperidge,
Sourgum and Tupelo.
The Black Tupelo is a medium-sized deciduous
tree which grows around 65 to 80 feet tall (rarely to 115 feet) and a trunk
diameter of 20 to 40 inches (rarely up to 65 inches).
It is native to eastern North America,
from New England and southern Ontario south to central Florida and eastern
Texas.
The leaf of Black Tupelo is variable in
size and shape. It can be oval, elliptical or obovate, and 2 to 5 inches
long. It is lustrous, with entire, often wavy margins. The leaf turns purple
in autumn, eventually becoming an intense bright scarlet.
The flower is very small, greenish-white
in clusters at the top of a long stalk. The fruit is a black-blue, ovoid
stone fruit, about 1/3rd of an inch long with a thin, oily, bitter-to-sour
flesh. There are from one to three such fruit together on a long slender
stalk.
The bark is dark gray and flaky when young,
but it becomes furrowed with age, resembling alligator hide on very old
stems. The twigs of this tree are reddish-brown, usually hidden by a grayish
skin. The pith is chambered with greenish partitions. The branches typically
stand at right angles to the trunk.
The wood is hard, cross-grained, and difficult
to split, especially after drying. It is used for pallets, rough floors,
pulpwood and firewood. It is also grown as an ornamental tree in parks
and large gardens, with its often spectacular intense red to purple fall
color being highly valued.
The Black Tupelo is an important food source
for many migrating birds in the fall. It's early color change (foliar fruit
flagging) is thought to attract birds to the available fruit, which ripen
before many other fall fruits and berries.
Birds recorded to feed on the fruit include:
American Robin, Swainson's Thrush, Gray-cheeked Thrush, Hermit Thrush,
Wood Thrush, Northern Cardinal, Northern Mockingbird, Blue Jay, Red-bellied
Woodpecker, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Northern Flicker, Pileated Woodpecker,
Eastern Phoebe, Brown Thrasher, Eastern Bluebird, European Starling, Scarlet
Tanager, Gray Catbird, Cedar Waxwing, and American Crow, all primarily
eastern birds migrating or residing year-round within the tree's range.
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