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Kentucky Color: Black gum may be most beautiful in the woods Click on headline for full feature plus photo To see the next earlier Kentucky Color Winged Sumac By Billy Joe Fudge, Columbia, KY President, Homeplace on Green River, Inc. 6048 New Columbia RD, Campbellsville, KY Black Gum was a favorite tree of our forefathers often referred to as the most beautiful tree in the woods. The leaf colors are waxy, very thick and these leaves are showing the scars of a long hard summer of converting sunlight, water and nutrients into sugars for storage over the winter. The tree can be very beautiful in the fall and also very sparsely colored. The fruit is a favorite of many birds and also of squirrels. Squirrels must not have the ability to taste bitter or sour in order to like this fruit. Just one taste and you will have a new definition of bitterly sour and instantly know why Black Gum is often labeled Sour Gum. The wood is t-o-u-g-h. You can hardly split it but if you leave it laying on the ground it will readily decay. The wood was a favorite for making wooden hammers and mauls. Nowadays sledgehammers, firewood splitters, etc. are thought of as mauls, but mauls were originally a wooden head and handle carved out of a single piece of wood. Mauls were used to drive stakes, wooden pins, fence posts, bungs in barrels, etc. In order to drive wood with wood you needed a maul that was tough and Black Gum certainly filled the bill. This story was posted on 2009-10-02 06:19:57
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