Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plant a black gum tree where it will have enough space to expand to its mature size without encroaching on nearby structures or ...

Blackgum, also called black tupelo, tupelo gum, or just tupelo, is a tree that loves to grow in water and water-soaked soils. In fact, the genus Nyssa is the name of a water nymph. The tree grows ...

I want to highlight two of the “trees for bees” that I mentioned last week. One is Nyssa sylvatica, a.k.a. black gum or tupelo. I fell in love with this tree in the Connecticut woods near where I grew ...

The Kendal at Oberlin Indigenous Peoples interest group recently hosted an intergenerational tree planting ceremony to celebrate indigenous survival and ingenuity. The tree, Nyssa sylvatica, also ...