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2166

Shrub
Perennial

Native to Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA - -

Rare

Look for it in bottomlands and limesink depressions, particularly over calcareous substrates, per Weakley's Flora

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

IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
May be armed with nodal spines

LEAVES:
Semi-evergreen/Deciduous
Simple
Alternate or clustered on spur shoots

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

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Drupe-like berry

 

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
 Sideroxylon thornei   FAMILY Sapotaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
 Sideroxylon thornei   FAMILY Sapotaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Trees, Shrubs, Woody Vines of north Florida & adjacent GA & AL (Godfrey, 1988)
 Bumelia thornei

 

COMMON NAME:
 Thorne's Bumelia, Swamp Bumelia

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image of Sideroxylon thornei, Thorne's Bumelia, Swamp Bumelia

Ron Lance    rwl2166_a

April        

Upper surfaces of mature leaves faintly, coarsely reticulate-veined (at 20x), per Weakley's Flora.