All of the town's facilities are centered at a location known as Beetlebung Corner.

The Yard, a summer colony of dancers, choreographers and performing artists, will present original pieces July 8 through 11 and Aug. 26 to 29 at its Barn Theater (617-645-9662) in the woods off Middle Road, near Beetlebung Corner in Chilmark.

Nyssa sylvatica is a major source of wild honey in many areas within its range.

Nyssa sylvatica is an important food source for many migrating birds in the fall.

Nyssa sylvatica is found in a wide range of climates, due to its extensive distribution.

Although there are several trees in this genus, the one best known for landscaping is the black gum called Nyssa sylvatica.

The wood of Nyssa sylvatica is heavy, hard, cross-grained, and difficult to split, especially after drying.

The larvae feed on Nyssa sylvatica.

These were called "gums" because they often were from black gum (Nyssa sylvatica) trees .

It can be found growing with swamp blackgum (Nyssa sylvatica var.

Nyssa sylvatica Marsh.

N. sinensis is known in cultivation as a more compact version of its relative Nyssa sylvatica (the black tupelo).

Nyssa sylvatica (Black Gum)

Nyssa sylvatica (sour gum)

The larvae feed on various deciduous trees, such as Black Gum, Nyssa sylvatica, hickory and walnut.

The only discouraging thing about black gum (Nyssa sylvatica), a k a black tupelo, is that this beautiful native tree is not more widely grown.

Nyssa sylvatica is cultivated as an ornamental tree in parks and large gardens, where it is often used as a specimen or shade tree.

Nyssa sylvatica - Black Tupelo or Pepperidge (North America)

Black Tupelo (Nyssa sylvatica), a medium-sized deciduous tree occasionally referred to as "Sourgum".

She took out a black gum, or Nyssa sylvatica, which she and her husband had planted for its brilliant orange foliage, unaware of how big it would get, 20 feet.

Loblolly-bay is a minor component in the overstory along with red maple (Acer rubrum), black tupelo (Nyssa sylvatica var.

In 1926 they purchased land in Fairfield, built a home and called the estate Pepperidge Farm after the pepperidge tree "Nyssa sylvatica".

The bottomland hardwood forests for which the ecoregion is famous are dominated by baldcypress (Taxodium distichum) and swamp tupelo (Nyssa sylvatica var.

The frosted flatwoods salamander breeds in small, shallow, ephemeral ponds, generally characterized by an overstory of pond cypress (Taxodium ascendens) and black tupelo (Nyssa sylvatica var.

The common name "sweet gum" refers to the species' "sweetish gum", contrasting with the black gum (Nyssa sylvatica), only distantly related, with which the sweet gum overlaps broadly in range.

Many oaks provide intense leaf colour but for something more unusual look out for Nyssa sylvatica, the black gum;Liquidambar styraciflua, the sweet gum, or Parrotia persica, the Persian ironwood.

Noteworthy specimens include a 36-meter giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) planted in 1856, a Sequoia sempervirens, a 45-meter bald cypress from Louisiana planted in 1822, and a 30-meter tupelo (Nyssa sylvatica).

Oak, blackgum, tulip and yellow birch trees are common in the woods that cover the valley walls.

It can be found growing with swamp blackgum (Nyssa sylvatica var.

Other hardwoods include green ash, red maple, swamp chestnut oak, blackgum, and the majestic bald cypress.

Jonathan had spent many happy childhood afternoons diving and swimming in the cool waters of the swift, narrow Blackgum River with his cousins.

Nyssa sylvatica (blackgum)

Elsewhere, beech trees, sugar maples, basswoods, pin oaks, red maples and blackgum trees grow.

Other tree species include red oaks, water oaks, willow oaks, blackgum, sweetgum, beech and hackberry.

Nyssa biflora, commonly referred to as the swamp tupelo, or blackgum is a species of tupelo that lives in wetland habitats.

In the early years of settlement, European-Americans named the town Gum Pond, supposedly due to its numerous tupelo trees, which are locally known as blackgum.

Fall blooms include chrysanthemums, asters, ornamental grasses and autumn roses as well as maple, blackgum and beech foliage.

Associated tree species include loblolly and shortleaf pines, oaks, gums (blackgum and sweetgum), and flowering dogwood.

It now contains over 100 species, including European beech, sweetgum, blackgum, willow oak, fringe tree, Balkan pine, and Japanese kerria.

It is less tolerant than many of its associates such as white and chestnut oaks, hickories, beech (Fagus grandifolia), maples, elm, and blackgum.

Chrysanthemums, asters, sedums, ornamental grasses, fall blooming roses, brilliant maple, blackgum and beech foliage are in bloom through mid-November.

Lowland hardwoods include willow oak, water oak, blackgum, sweetgum, cottonwood, willow, ash, elm, hackberry, and red maple.

Tree species include shortleaf pine, post oak, red oak, black oak, hickory, elm, blackgum, sweetgum, rusty blackhaw (Viburnum rufidulum), flowering dogwood, and hawthorn (Crataegus).

The undergrowth was not too thick; they had found an easy way under the canopy of oak and hickory, blackgum and beech, pierced here and there by a tall pine or leatherleaf, or the white slash of a paperbark.