The native Nyssa sylvatica has long been one of my favorite trees. I fell in love with it in the Connecticut woods near where I grew up, watching its glossy leaves turn the most intense shade of ...

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 ...

Seedlings of swamp tupelo (Nyssa sylvatica var. biflora [Walt.] Sarg.) were grown in nonflooded soil or soil that was intermittently flooded, continuously flooded, or surface-saturated with moving or ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - An ancient Black Tupelo tree (Nyssa sylvatica), standing tall on the grounds of Mount Manresa, could be more than 400 years old, and possibly one of the oldest trees in all of ...

The black tupelo’s scientific name is doubly descriptive for this water-loving forest tree. Nyssa comes from Nysa or Nyssa, the name of a Greek water nymph, while sylvatica means forest-dwelling. Male ...

Sven Svenson, left, and Corey Jones plant a black gum tree, Nyssa sylvatica "Wildfire," on Friday at the top of "Cardiac Hill," the intersection of North Pacific Street, Alta Vista Drive and Cheney ...

As I approached the tupelo trees (Nyssa sylvatica) at the edge of our property recently, I noticed a faint humming sound. I looked closely among the leaves and found dozens of honeybees busy visiting ...

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 ...