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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Sideroxylon thornei
FAMILY
Sapotaceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sideroxylon thornei
FAMILY
Sapotaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Sideroxylon thornei
SYNONYMOUS WITH Trees, Shrubs, Woody Vines of north Florida & adjacent GA & AL (Godfrey, 1988)
Bumelia thornei
COMMON NAME:
Georgia Bully, Thorne's Bumelia, Swamp Bumelia
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Ron Lance rwl2166_a
April
Upper surfaces of mature leaves faintly, coarsely reticulate-veined (at 20x), per Weakley's Flora (2012).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Sideroxylon thornei
FAMILY
Sapotaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sideroxylon thornei
FAMILY
Sapotaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Sideroxylon thornei
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Trees, Shrubs, Woody Vines of north Florida & adjacent GA & AL (Godfrey, 1988)
Bumelia thornei
2166
Shrub
Perennial
Habitat: Bottomlands and limesink depressions, particularly over calcareous substrates, per Weakley's Flora
Native to Georgia
Rare
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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
RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Plants not strongly rhizomatous
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White
5-lobed calyx
5-lobed corolla
5 stamens & 5 staminodia, fused to corolla
Superior ovary
Bisexual
Flowers in axillary clusters
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Drupe-like berry
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast (Foote & Jones, 1989) p118
- Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia (Chafin, 2007) p361
- Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide (Lance, 2004) p328
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