About Sideroxylon lanuginosum Michx.
Sideroxylon lanuginosum Michx. is a shrub or small tree belonging to the Sapotaceae plant family. It is native to the Sun Belt and Midwest regions of the United States, as well as northeastern Mexico. This species has a wide range of common names, including gum bully, black haw, chittamwood, chittimwood, shittamwood, false buckthorn, gum bumelia, gum elastic, gum woolybucket, woolybucket bumelia, wooly buckthorn, wooly bumelia, ironwood, and coma. The fruit of this species, formerly classified under the synonym Bumelia lanuginosa, is edible, but eating large quantities can cause stomach aches or dizziness. The Kiowa and Comanche tribes historically consumed its ripe fruit. Gum collected from the tree’s trunk is sometimes chewed by children.
