§1 Plant
Nyssa ogeche W. Bartram ex Marshall
vernacular Ogeechee tupelo — species · Cornaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Cornaceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Nyssa
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 57 counties across 4 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -8 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 270 min.
- Precipitation
- 45–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 4.5–6.5
- Root depth
- 24 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Stem
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 50 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 40 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Green
- Fruit colour
- Red
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Mid Spring
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- Yes
- Seeds / lb
- 1,230
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Palatable, human
- Yes
- Lumber
- No
- Fuelwood
- Low
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 57 counties across 4 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 22 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 32 N ▾
- Appling 13001
- Baker 13007
- Ben Hill 13017
- Berrien 13019
- Brantley 13025
- Brooks 13027
- Bulloch 13031
- Candler 13043
- Charlton 13049
- Chatham 13051
- Clinch 13065
- Coffee 13069
- Colquitt 13071
- Columbia 13073
- Cook 13075
- Echols 13101
- Irwin 13155
- Jackson 13157
- Jenkins 13165
- Lanier 13173
- Long 13183
- McIntosh 13191
- Mitchell 13205
- Tattnall 13267
- Telfair 13271
- Tift 13277
- Toombs 13279
- Turner 13287
- Ware 13299
- Wayne 13305
- Wilcox 13315
- Worth 13321
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/NYOG ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5383722 ↗Record version
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