NameThatPlant.net: Sideroxylon macrocarpum

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Ericales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Sideroxylon macrocarpum FAMILY Sapotaceae Go to FSUS key

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SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sideroxylon macrocarpum FAMILY Sapotaceae

COMMON NAME:
Big-fruited Buckthorn, Ohoopee Bumelia, Ohoopee Bully

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Sideroxylon macrocarpum FAMILY Sapotaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sideroxylon macrocarpum FAMILY Sapotaceae

4595

Shrub
Perennial

Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, per Weakley's Flora

Native to Georgia

Rare

CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.

DOES THE PLANT HAVE "MILKY SAP"?
Has milky sap (latex)

IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
May be armed with spinose twig tips, spinose spur shoots, and/or nodal spines

LEAVES:
Deciduous to tardily deciduous
Simple
Alternate or clustered on spur shoots

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
White
5-lobed calyx
5-lobed corolla
5 stamens & 5 staminodia, fused to corolla
Superior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Purplish-black
Drupe-like berry

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