Sideroxylon lanuginosum

Gum bully
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Sapotaceae
Genus: Sideroxylon
Species: S. lanuginosum
Binomial name
Sideroxylon lanuginosum
Michx.[1]
Subspecies
  • S. l. ssp. lanuginosum
  • S. l. ssp. oblongifolium
  • S. l. ssp. rigidum[2]
Natural range

Sideroxylon lanuginosum[3] is a shrub or small tree of the family Sapotaceae. It is native to the Sun Belt and Midwest of the United States[4] as well as Northeastern Mexico.[1] Common names include gum bully,[4] black haw, chittamwood, chittimwood, shittamwood, false buckthorn, gum bumelia, gum elastic, gum woolybucket, woolybucket bumelia, wooly buckthorn, wooly bumelia, ironwood and coma.

Subspecies

References

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