Nyssa ogeche Re-introduce six to ten feet tall

six to ten feet tall in time and narrower than wide

the species shears as cleanly as boxwood and has long been a Southern mainstay for hedges

a reminder that Native peoples were drying persimmons into cakes long before the botanists arrived

and clear what old texts called heat

In late summer and into fall

Nyssa ogeche Re-introduce six to ten feet tallNyssa ogeche, the Ogeechee tupelo, is a medium sized deciduous tree of the southeastern Coastal Plain, at home from southern South Carolina through the Ogeechee valley of Georgia into northern Florida and Alabama. The genus name honors Nyssa, a water nymph of Greek myth, and the tree lives up to the name, thriving along creeks, river swamps, and seasonally flooded bottoms where the soil stays acidic and wet. Best known of all is the fruit: elongated,