Black Gum Tree Wood

Accordingly the early settlers used the wood for mauls tool.

Black gum tree wood. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Black gum wood possesses an interlocked grain. June 2010 learn how and when to remove this template message. The wood of the black gum has fibers not only interwoven but twisted to boot.

Unlike most trees the tupelo trees are either male or female with flowers being abundant on the female trees. Black gum makes the best boards for dump trucks. Quartersawn surfaces exhibit ribbon stripe patterning due to interlocked grain. Sapwood is very wide and is generally a pale yellow color sometimes with a grayish cast.

And while modern tools and cutting edges can surmount this obstacle even the. This article needs additional citations for verification. Heartwood is narrower and is a medium brown to gray. They will rot out if not all heart wood but last longer than most other woods.

Sometimes however the tree can grow perfect flowers making this ultimately a polygamodioecious species. So that much like sycamore it just about can t be split not even with wedges. It is not unusual for the larger older tree to be hollow due to decay fungi. The fact was that once down a black gum log was nearly impossible to split with tools at hand.

Black gum trees generally are deciduous so you would need both a male and a female for fruit production. Not that black gum or black tupelo as it is sometimes called didn t yield good wood. From waxy spring foliage and brilliant fall color to beautiful winter form the black gum shows great ornamental value it has unique thick bark that is arranged in six sided plates.