Nyssa sylvatica v biflora - true swamp species found with cypress. Narrow leaves, deeply ridged seeds. Wood is tough, cross-grained, hard to work, and warps easily. It is often used for crates, cross ties, rough floors, and pulpwood.

The wood of Nyssa sylvatica is heavy, hard, cross-grained, and difficult to split, especially after drying. This resistance to splitting led to its use for making mauls, pulleys, wheel hubs, agricultural rollers, bowls, and paving blocks. [4]

Tupelo is a favored wood for wildfowl carvings. It generally is able to take finer details, holds paint better, and does not fuzz up during power carving like Basswood.

Jun 27, 2023 · Black Tupelo, scientifically known as Nyssa sylvatica, is a type of hardwood native to the eastern United States. Also known as black gum or sour gum, it’s valued for its durability and unique aesthetic qualities.

Jul 18, 2024 · The black tupelo tree, scientifically known as Nyssa sylvatica, is a deciduous tree native to eastern North America from the coastal Northeastern United States and southern Ontario south to central Florida and eastern Texas, as well as Mexico.

Jan 27, 2022 · The black tupelo tree (Nyssa sylvatica) is a medium-sized flowering tree in the plant family Nyssaceae. A black tupelo tree has a broadly conical habit with branches spreading horizontally from the main trunk.

Black tupelo (Nyssa sylvatica) is divided into two commonly recognized varieties, typical black tupelo (var. sylvatica) and swamp tupelo (var. biflora).

Updates: On 29 January 2018, the common name of Nyssa sylvatica was changed in FEIS from: black tupelo to: blackgum, and the scientific name of swamp tupelo was changed from: Nyssa sylvatica var. biflora

With distinctive stout and many-branched trunks, black tupelo is easily recognized in wet forests. The trunks often die from the top, giving its crown a scraggly appearance. Tupelo wood is highly cross-grained, making it difficult to work.

Fossil Nyssa wood occurs in Yellowstone National Park. Radial section: The multiseriate rays are heterocellular with procumbent body cells and marginal rows of upright cells; vessel-ray …