Index / Search / Sideroxylon lycioides
§1 Plant
Sideroxylon lycioides L.
vernacular buckthorn bully — species · Sapotaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Sapotaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Sideroxylon
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 254 counties across 15 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Medium
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -27 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 207 min.
- Precipitation
- 33–51 in/yr
- pH range
- 4–7
- Root depth
- 24 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Crown
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 9.8 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 15 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- White
- Fruit colour
- Black
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- Severe
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Early Summer
- Seed abundance
- Low
- Seed begins
- Fall
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- Yes
- Seeds / lb
- 5,000
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- Yes
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Fuelwood
- High
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 254 counties across 15 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Burke 13033
- Cherokee 13057
- Clarke 13059
- Dade 13083
- Dooly 13093
- Early 13099
- Echols 13101
- Elbert 13105
- Floyd 13115
- Gordon 13129
- Harris 13145
- Hart 13147
- Jackson 13157
- Jasper 13159
- Jefferson 13163
- Lincoln 13181
- McDuffie 13189
- Oglethorpe 13221
- Putnam 13237
- Stephens 13257
- Walker 13295
- Walton 13297
- Wilkes 13317
Illinois view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 28 N ▾
- Adair 21001
- Allen 21003
- Ballard 21007
- Breckinridge 21027
- Butler 21031
- Calloway 21035
- Crittenden 21055
- Cumberland 21057
- Edmonson 21061
- Grayson 21085
- Hardin 21093
- Harrison 21097
- Hart 21099
- Henry 21103
- Livingston 21139
- Logan 21141
- Lyon 21143
- Marshall 21157
- McLean 21149
- Montgomery 21173
- Muhlenberg 21177
- Ohio 21183
- Perry 21193
- Robertson 21201
- Simpson 21213
- Trigg 21221
- Warren 21227
- Wayne 21231
Louisiana view state ↗ 41 N ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Allen 22003
- Ascension 22005
- Assumption 22007
- Beauregard 22011
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Cameron 22023
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- Concordia 22029
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Carroll 22035
- East Feliciana 22037
- Franklin 22041
- Grant 22043
- Iberville 22047
- Jefferson 22051
- LaSalle 22059
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Ouachita 22073
- Plaquemines 22075
- Red River 22081
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Charles 22089
- St. Helena 22091
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tensas 22107
- Terrebonne 22109
- Union 22111
- Vermilion 22113
- Vernon 22115
- West Carroll 22123
- West Feliciana 22125
Mississippi view state ↗ 20 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 5 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 17 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 45 N ▾
- Bedford 47003
- Blount 47009
- Bradley 47011
- Cannon 47015
- Cheatham 47021
- Davidson 47037
- Decatur 47039
- DeKalb 47041
- Franklin 47051
- Giles 47055
- Grundy 47061
- Hamilton 47065
- Hardin 47071
- Henry 47079
- Hickman 47081
- Humphreys 47085
- Jackson 47087
- Knox 47093
- Lake 47095
- Lauderdale 47097
- Lewis 47101
- Lincoln 47103
- Loudon 47105
- Madison 47113
- Marion 47115
- Marshall 47117
- Maury 47119
- Montgomery 47125
- Moore 47127
- Obion 47131
- Perry 47135
- Roane 47145
- Robertson 47147
- Rutherford 47149
- Sequatchie 47153
- Shelby 47157
- Smith 47159
- Stewart 47161
- Sumner 47165
- Trousdale 47169
- Warren 47177
- Wayne 47181
- White 47185
- Williamson 47187
- Wilson 47189
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/SILY ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2886983 ↗Record version
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