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FREE: Ogeechee Tupelo - Nyssa ogeche (5 seeds)

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The listing, Ogeechee Tupelo - Nyssa ogeche (5 seeds) has ended.

Nyssa Ogeche, or more commonly know as Ogeechee Tupelo, is a tree with green foliage and green flowers of the genus Nyssa. It has a rapid growth rate and a height of 50 feet at maturity. Its duration is perennial which means it will grow year after year. It’s active growth period is spring and summer, blooms during mid spring and is intolerant of shade. Nyssa Ogeche or Ogeechee Tupelo‘s floral region is North America US Lower 48, specifically in the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. Requires a really wet spot in your yard near a pond, creek, lake, etc.

Fruit juice can be used as a lime juice substitute in drinks, sauces, etc.
How to grow - see comment below.

Questions & Comments

http://www.backyardgardener.com/plantname/pda_73b0.html
From seed; direct sow outdoors in fall
From seed; winter sow in vented containers, coldframe or unheated greenhouse
From seed; stratify if sowing indoors

Seed Collecting:
Remove fleshy coating on seeds before storing
Properly cleaned, seed can be successfully stored

Sep 16th, 2012 at 7:27:07 PM PDT by

Hey, I ate one of the fruits and it is definitely sour like a lime and not too unpleasant. Looks like I may have to go back to the swamp just for some more fruit. Poor man's lime-ade!

Sep 16th, 2012 at 7:30:17 PM PDT by

http://www.na.fs.fed.us/pubs/silvics_manual/volume_2/nyssa/ogeche.htm

Sep 16th, 2012 at 7:36:06 PM PDT by

thats a tounge twister! f&w

Sep 21st, 2012 at 1:20:36 PM PDT by

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