Talk:Nyssa sylvatica

Bark, twig descriptions
Black tupelo bark can actually be anywhere between grey and reddish brown, and flaky, when young. When older, the furrows are more or less vertical, but follow the often wavy shape of the trunk. The alligator-hide bark does not always appear, since there is not always horizontal cross-scoring. The twigs are almost all at right angles to the branches, a distinctive identifying feature.

Not sure what the protocol is for making changes like this as part of the article is referenced to a published description.

Flower descriptions, photographs
Under the flower description, it would be useful if a photograph could be found. Photographs of these flowers are conspicuously absent from most descriptions of this species, and would be valuable to beekeepers particularly. Tomligon (talk) 14:01, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

```` The first photograph in this article, found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyssa_sylvatica#/media/File:Nyssa_sylvatica_v_sylvatica.jpg, does not look like Nyssa sylvatica. I am not a Wikipedia editor, and don't know how to fix this problem. --Paul Gillis pgillis@cox.net 98.169.213.45 (talk) 05:48, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

Edible
The berries are edible. Although bitter, some people eat them or make the into preserves. 45.40.10.240 (talk) 04:09, 26 February 2022 (UTC)

Gall?
Does these trees have gall? I am not really that is the proper term, but my tree has these unsightly nogules that form here and there. I am not exactly sure if mine is the same tree. I am trying to identify it.

Thank you Daryl 174.215.150.223 (talk) 15:30, 27 April 2022 (UTC)