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  • From: Lucky Pittman <Lucky.Pittman@murraystate.edu>
  • To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] mystery fruit
  • Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 08:41:35 -0600

Del,
It looks kind of like blackgum(aka sour gum, pepperidge, Allegheny
toothbrush), Nyssa sylvatica, to me.
Are the fruits a little blue drupe with a football-shaped stone inside?

If it is N.sylvatica, it's a GREAT landscape specimen. Glossy green summer
foliage, TREMENDOUS red fall color.
Lucky Pittman
USDA Zone 6
Hopkinsville, KY


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