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Your search found 7 taxa in the family Sapotaceae, Sapodilla family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
Common Name: Alachua Bully, Silver Bully, Silver Buckthorn
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Sideroxylon alachuense FAMILY: Sapotaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Sideroxylon alachuense FAMILY: Sapotaceae
Habitat: Sandy hammocks, shell middens
Rare
Native to Georgia
Common Name: Big-fruited Buckthorn, Ohoopee Bumelia, Ohoopee Bully
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Sideroxylon macrocarpum FAMILY: Sapotaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Sideroxylon macrocarpum FAMILY: Sapotaceae
Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills
Rare
Native to Georgia
Common Name: Smooth Bumelia, Florida Bully
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Sideroxylon reclinatum ssp. reclinatum FAMILY: Sapotaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Sideroxylon reclinatum ssp. reclinatum FAMILY: Sapotaceae
Habitat: Floodplain forests and river margins
Uncommon in GA, rare in SC
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Buckthorn Bumelia, Buckthorn Bully, Carolina Buckthorn
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Sideroxylon lycioides FAMILY: Sapotaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Sideroxylon lycioides FAMILY: Sapotaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Bumelia lycioides 149-01-001 FAMILY: Sapotaceae
Habitat: Maritime forests, maritime scrub, river bluffs, swamp margins, usually in circumneutral soil (over shell hash, coquina limestone, marl, or limestone), in the Piedmont and Mountains in rich, mesic forests over mafic or calcareous rocks
Uncommon (rare in NC Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Tough Buckthorn, Tough Bumelia, Tough Bully
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Sideroxylon tenax FAMILY: Sapotaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Sideroxylon tenax FAMILY: Sapotaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Bumelia tenax 149-01-002 FAMILY: Sapotaceae
Habitat: Maritime scrub, maritime forests, rarely somewhat inland in hammocks and FL scrub
Uncommon in GA, rare in Carolinas
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Eastern Gum Bumelia, Eastern Gum Bully
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Sideroxylon lanuginosum ssp. lanuginosum FAMILY: Sapotaceae
INCLUDING PLANTS National Database: Sideroxylon lanuginosum ssp. lanuginosum FAMILY: Sapotaceae
Habitat: Dry upland forests and woodlands, glades, bluffs, prairies and saline barrens, roadsides, pastures, rises in bottomland forests
Uncommon in GA Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA & SC)
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Georgia Bully, Thorne's Bumelia, Swamp Bumelia
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Sideroxylon thornei FAMILY: Sapotaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Sideroxylon thornei FAMILY: Sapotaceae
Habitat: Bottomlands and limesink depressions, particularly over calcareous substrates
Rare
Native to Georgia
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