. Common forest trees of Georgia: how to know them. A pocket manual. Trees -- Georgia. -cjS^- BLACK GUM {Nyssa sylvatica ^larsli.) •THE black gum, often called sour gum, has been cousidori'd a weed in the forest. Weed-like, it finds footing in many types of soil and conditi«ns of soil moisture throughout the State. In the lowlands it is occasionally found in year-round swamps with cypress, and in the hills and mountains on dry slopes with oaks and BLACK GUM One-half natural size. ^^ The leaves are simple, 2 to 3 inches long, entire, often broader near the apex, shiny, and dark gree
. Common forest trees of Georgia: how to know them. A pocket manual. Trees -- Georgia. -cjS^- BLACK GUM {Nyssa sylvatica ^larsli.) •THE black gum, often called sour gum, has been cousidori'd a weed in the forest. Weed-like, it finds footing in many types of soil and conditi«ns of soil moisture throughout the State. In the lowlands it is occasionally found in year-round swamps with cypress, and in the hills and mountains on dry slopes with oaks and BLACK GUM One-half natural size. ^^ The leaves are simple, 2 to 3 inches long, entire, often broader near the apex, shiny, and dark green in color. In the fall the leaves turn a most brilliant red. The bark on younger trees is furrowed between flat ridges, and gradually develops into quadrangu- lar blocks that are dense, hard and nearly black. The greenish flowers on long slender stems ap- pear in early spring when the leaves are about one-third grown. They are usually of two kinds, the male in many-flowered heads and the female in two to several-flowered clusters on different trees. The fruit is a dark blue, fleshy berry, two-thirds of an inch long, containing a single hard-shelled seed, and is boi-ne on long stems, 2 to .3 in a cluster. The wood is very tough, cross-grained, not dur- able in contact with the soil, hard to work, and warps easily. It is used for crate and basket veneers, box shooks. rollers, mallets, rough floors, mine trams, pulpwood. and fuel. In the old days, the hollow trunks were used for "bee ; 75. 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 Mattoon, Wilbur R. (Wilbur Reed), 1875-1941; Burleigh, Thomas Dearborn. Athens, Ga.
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