Sideroxylon lanuginosum

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 Sideroxylon lanuginosum subsp. var.  
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The Gum Bully (Sideroxylon lanuginosum)[1][2] is a shrub or small tree of the family Sapotaceae. It is widely distributed in the sunbelt states in the United States and in Mexico.

The Gum Bully is also called Black Haw, Chittamwood, Chittimwood or Shittamwood, False Buckthorn, Gum Bumelia, Gum Elastic, Gum Woolybucket, Woolybucket Bumelia, Wooly Buckthorn, Wooly Bumelia, Ironwood and Coma.


Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Bumelia lanuginosa, Pers. Chittim Wood. Tree, sometimes 50 ft.: Lvs. oblong-obovate or cuneate-obovate, rounded and often apiculate at the apex, dark green and lustrous above, tomentose beneath, sometimes nearly glabrous at length, 1-2 ½ in. long: clusters many-fid.; pedicels slender, hairy; fr. oblong-ovoid or obovoid, ½in. long. Southern states north to S. Ill., west to Texas.—This is the species most often met with in collections.


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Subspecies:

  • Sideroxylon l. albicans
  • Sideroxylon Michx. ssp. lanuginosum (syn. Bumelia lanuginosa, Bumelia rufa)[3][4]
  • Sideroxylon l. oblongifolium
  • Sideroxylon l. rigidum

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References

  1. Sideroxylon lanuginosum at USDA PLANTS Database
  2. Sideroxylon lanuginosum at Missouri Botanical Garden
  3. Sideroxylon lanuginosum Michx. ssp. lanuginosum at Oklahoma Biological Survey
  4. Bumelia lanuginosa at University of Florida

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