Nyssa ogeche Re-introduce In spring the blue racemes

In spring the blue racemes draw queen bumblebees and other long-tongued native bees

In late summer and into fall

the females carrying translucent scarlet berries into winter

Native to the warm coasts and hillsides of southern Japan

Nyssa ogeche Re-introduce In spring the blue racemesNyssa 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,