Sideroxylon lanuginosum

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Gum Bully
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Ericales Family: Sapotaceae Genus: Sideroxylon L. Species: S. lanuginosum
Binomial name
Sideroxylon lanuginosum Michx.

The Gum Bully (Sideroxylon lanuginosum)^[1][2] is a shrub or small tree of the family Sapotaceae. It is widely distributed in the sunbelt states in the United States and in Mexico.

[edit] Alternative names

The Gum Bully is also called Black Haw, Chittamwood, Chittimwood or Shittamwood, False Buckthorn, Gum Bumelia, Gum Elastic, Gum Woolybucket, Woolybucket Bumelia, Wooly Buckthorn, Wooly Bumelia, Ironwood and Coma.

[edit] Subspecies

• Sideroxylon l. albicans
• Sideroxylon Michx. ssp. lanuginosum (syn. Bumelia lanuginosa, Bumelia rufa)^[3][4]
• Sideroxylon l. oblongifolium
• Sideroxylon l. rigidum

[edit] References

1. ^ Sideroxylon lanuginosum at USDA PLANTS Database
2. ^ Sideroxylon lanuginosum at Missouri Botanical Garden
3. ^ Sideroxylon lanuginosum Michx. ssp. lanuginosum at Oklahoma Biological Survey
4. ^ Bumelia lanuginosa at University of Florida