Nyssa sylvatica Low Stock gives nitrogen back to the

gives nitrogen back to the ground it sits in

One growing as Fontanesia fortunei in our Citywide Arboretum here in Aiken

here is a treasure: very hard to find

small-leaved

In the garden here

Nyssa sylvatica Low Stock gives nitrogen back to theBlack gum is one of the longest lived hardwoods in eastern North America; individual trees have been aged past six hundred and fifty years, standing quietly in swamp margins and rocky uplands while everything human around them came and went. The names alone are a small history lesson. Nyssa was a water nymph of Greek myth, sylvatica means of the woods, so the botanical name reads as water nymph of the forest; tupelo comes from the Creek ito and