Know anything about a Gum Bumelia?

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broncbuster Waxahachie, TX(Zone 8a) Jul 26, 2007

I have several scraggly looking trees that I've identified as Gum Bumelias, but I'd like to know more about them and they'r not in the plant files. If you can offer any info, I'd appreciate it!

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ecrane3 Dublin, CA(Zone 9a) Jul 26, 2007

Any idea what the Latin name is?

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Resin Northumberland, United Kingdom(Zone 9a) Jul 26, 2007

Sideroxylon lanuginosum, formerly Bumelia lanuginosa. In the family Sapotaceae.

Resin

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bettydee La Grange, TX(Zone 8b) Jul 28, 2007

They grow wild here on the ranch in central Texas. Given room, they grow into a nice looking evergreen tree. Slow growing. The "thorns at the tip of the branches are blunt enough that they haven't been a problem. The bark is dark, fissured and looks like a live oak's bark.
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/ornamentals/natives/bumelialanuginosa.htm

This is a photo of one near our future home site. The trunk is difficult to see because there is greenbriar growing around the base.

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