Nyssa sylvatica | Black Gum Tree - Height 250-300cm, 65lt Clematis

Nyssa sylvatica | Black Gum Tree - Height 250-300cm, 65lt ClematisNyssa sylvatica is a medium sized, slow growing, deciduous tree with elegant, horizontal branches forming rounded to pyramidal crown. Its glossy, dark green leaves turn beautiful orange, scarlet and purple in autumn. Flowers are inconspicuous, small, greenish, and grow in clusters on female plants, and in dense flower heads on male plants. Oval, long fruits appear in autumn and are dark blue when they mature. Nyssa sylvatica is an adaptable tree. It

attractive and with exquisite flavour

acid to neutral soils

rosy-pink flowers with red calyces bloom in profusion in early spring on bare branches before the leaves emerge

ideal for small

especially the fresh

Suitable for low screens and hedges

offering a vivid contrast against the greenery

Best to be planted against a warm south- or west-facing

green or grey-green with greyish

Malus 'Evereste'

glossy green leaves that turn yellow and bronze in autumn

British Columbia in 1945