Gum Bumelia
Sideroxylon lanuginosum
Thorny, iron-tough native with fragrant white flower clusters and black fruit for birds. Thrives on the hottest, driest, most alkaline sites going.
- Family
- Sapotaceae
- Type
- tree
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 15–45 ft
- Spacing
- 10–30 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade
- Soil moisture
- moist
- Soil pH
- neutral, alkaline
- Bloom
- June, July
- Bloom colors
- white
- Wildlife value
- pollinators
- Landscape uses
- naturalizing
- Native states
- AL, AR, AZ, FL, GA, IL, KS, KY, LA, MO, MS, NM, OK, SC, TX