. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 738 The Tupelos staminate flowers are on slender pedicels, in long-stalked umbels; the pistillate 2 together, at the end of a long stalk, with ovate blunt petals. The fruit is in clus- ters of 2 on a stalk 2 to 6 cm. long, oval to eUiptic, 10 to 13 mm. long, dark blue; the acrid pulp is rather thin; stone oval, prominently ribbed. The wood is very similar to that of the Sour gum, of which this tree is some- times consider
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 738 The Tupelos staminate flowers are on slender pedicels, in long-stalked umbels; the pistillate 2 together, at the end of a long stalk, with ovate blunt petals. The fruit is in clus- ters of 2 on a stalk 2 to 6 cm. long, oval to eUiptic, 10 to 13 mm. long, dark blue; the acrid pulp is rather thin; stone oval, prominently ribbed. The wood is very similar to that of the Sour gum, of which this tree is some- times considered a race or variety. 2. SOUR GUM—Nyssa sylvatica Marshal Nyssa multiflora Wangenheim This well-known tree, also called Tupelo, Tupelo gum, Black gum, Yellow gum, Peppcridge, and Stinkwood, is of frequent occurrence in wet or moist soil, from Maine to Ontario, Michigan, Florida and Texas, attaining its greatest di-. FlG. 675. — Sour Gum, New York Botanical Garden. mensions, 50 meters high, and a trunk diameter of m., in the southern Alle- ghany Mountains. The trunk is stout, thick and straight, the branches slender, widely spreading or. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Shafer, John Adolph. New York : H. Holt and Co.
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