Sideroxylon lanuginosum explained

Sideroxylon lanuginosum^[1] is a shrub or small tree of the family Sapotaceae.^[2] It is native to the Sun Belt and Midwest of the United States as well as Northeastern Mexico. Common names include gum bully, black haw, chittamwood, chittimwood, shittamwood, false buckthorn, gum bumelia, gum elastic, gum woolybucket, woolybucket bumelia, wooly buckthorn, wooly bumelia, ironwood and coma.

The fruit of Bumelia lanuginosa is edible but can cause stomach aches or dizziness if eaten in large quantities. The Kiowa and Comanche tribes both consumed them when ripened.^[3] Gum from the trunk of the tree is sometimes chewed by children.^[4]

Subspecies

• Sideroxylon lanuginosum subsp. lanuginosum (syn. Bumelia lanuginosa, Bumelia rufa)^{[5] [6]}
• Sideroxylon lanuginosum subsp. oblongifolium (Nutt.) T.D.Penn. (syn. Sideroxylon lanuginosum ssp. albicans)
• Sideroxylon lanuginosum subsp. rigidum (A.Gray) T.D.Penn.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Help for the Home Gardener. Missouribotanicalgarden.org. 27 March 2022.
2. Web site: The Buckthorns (Genus Sideroxylon): An Underappreciated Group of Florida Native Plants. PDF. Paul T. Corogin. Fdacs.gov. 27 March 2022.
3. Book: Peattie, Donald Culross . Donald C. Peattie

   . Donald C. Peattie . A Natural History of Western Trees . 1953 . . New York . 678.

4. Book: Little, Elbert L.. The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees: Eastern Region. Knopf. New York. 1980. 0-394-50760-6. 631.
5. http://www.biosurvey.ou.edu/shrub/silal3.htm Sideroxylon lanuginosum Michx. ssp. lanuginosum at Oklahoma Biological Survey
6. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ST103 Bumelia lanuginosa at University of Florida