Nyssa ogeche Re-introduce a reminder that Native peoples

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

the females carrying translucent scarlet berries into winter

and pair with other Southern broadleaf evergreens where fast

six to ten feet tall in time and narrower than wide

Native to the warm coasts and hillsides of southern Japan

Nyssa ogeche Re-introduce a reminder that Native peoplesNyssa 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,