Sideroxylon lanuginosum[4] is a shrub or small tree of the family Sapotaceae.[5] It is native to the Sun Belt and Midwest of the United States[6] as well as Northeastern Mexico.[2] Common names include gum bully,[6] black haw, chittamwood, chittimwood, shittamwood, false buckthorn, gum bumelia, gum elastic, gum woolybucket, woolybucket bumelia, wooly buckthorn, wooly bumelia, ironwood and coma.
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Sapotaceae |
| Genus: | Sideroxylon |
| Species: | S. lanuginosum
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| Sideroxylon lanuginosum | |
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The fruit of Bumelia lanuginosa is edible but can cause stomach aches or dizziness if eaten in large quantities.[7] The Kiowa and Comanche tribes both consumed them when ripened.[8] Gum from the trunk of the tree is sometimes chewed by children.[7]
Subspecies
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edit- ^ "NatureServe Explorer 2.0 - Sideroxylon lanuginosum, Gum Bumelia". Explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
- ^ a b "Sideroxylon lanuginosum". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2011-10-06.
- ^ a b "Sideroxylon lanuginosum". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2011-10-06.
- ^ "Help for the Home Gardener". Missouribotanicalgarden.org. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
- ^ Paul T. Corogin. "The Buckthorns (Genus Sideroxylon): An Underappreciated Group of Florida Native Plants" (PDF). Fdacs.gov. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
- ^ a b NRCS. "Sideroxylon lanuginosum". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 14 November 2015.
- ^ a b Little, Elbert L. (1980). The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees: Eastern Region. New York: Knopf. p. 631. ISBN 0-394-50760-6.
- ^ Peattie, Donald Culross (1953). A Natural History of Western Trees. New York: Bonanza Books. p. 678.
- ^ Sideroxylon lanuginosum Michx. ssp. lanuginosum at Oklahoma Biological Survey
- ^ Bumelia lanuginosa at University of Florida
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