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The '''Gum Bully''' (''Sideroxylon lanuginosum'')<ref>[http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=SILA20 ''Sideroxylon lanuginosum'' at USDA PLANTS Database]</ref><ref>[http://www.mobot.org/gardeninghelp/plantfinder/Plant.asp?code=M830 ''Sideroxylon lanuginosum'' at Missouri Botanical Garden]</ref> is a shrub or small tree of the family [[Sapotaceae]]. It is widely distributed in the [[Sun Belt|sunbelt states]] in the [[United States]] and in [[Mexico]]. The Gum Bully is also called Black Haw, Chittamwood, Chittimwood or Shittamwood, False Buckthorn, Gum Bumelia, Gum Elastic, Gum Woolybucket, Woolybucket Bumelia, Wooly Buckthorn, Wooly Bumelia, Ironwood and Coma. {{Inc| Bumelia lanuginosa, Pers. Chittim Wood. Tree, sometimes 50 ft.: Lvs. oblong-obovate or cuneate-obovate, rounded and often apiculate at the apex, dark green and lustrous above, tomentose beneath, sometimes nearly glabrous at length, 1-2 ½ in. long: clusters many-fid.; pedicels slender, hairy; fr. oblong-ovoid or obovoid, ½in. long. Southern states north to S. Ill., west to Texas.—This is the species most often met with in collections. }} ==Cultivation== ===Propagation=== ===Pests and diseases=== ==Varieties== Subspecies: * ''Sideroxylon l. albicans'' * ''Sideroxylon'' Michx. ssp. ''lanuginosum'' ([[syn.]] ''Bumelia lanuginosa'', ''Bumelia rufa'')<ref>[http://www.biosurvey.ou.edu/shrub/silal3.htm ''Sideroxylon lanuginosum'' Michx. ssp. ''lanuginosum'' at Oklahoma Biological Survey]</ref><ref>[http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ST103 ''Bumelia lanuginosa'' at University of Florida]</ref> * ''Sideroxylon l. oblongifolium'' * ''Sideroxylon l. rigidum'' ==Gallery== <gallery perrow=5> Image:Upload.png| photo 1 Image:Upload.png| photo 2 Image:Upload.png| photo 3 </gallery> ==References== <references/> *[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963 <!--- xxxxx *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381 --> <!--- xxxxx *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432 --> <!--- xxxxx *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608 --> ==External links== *{{wplink}} {{stub}} __NOTOC__
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