Description
Bumelia –
There are about 25 species of evergreen and deciduous trees and shrubs, in this genus. They are confined to the Americas. They are mostly thorny trees with milky sap, simple, smooth edged leaves and small white flowers emerging from rusty haired buds, carried in small clusters. The fruits are small berries each containing a single large brown seed. Provide food for wild live and are drought resistant with deep tap roots.
B. lanuginosa – Gum Bumelia – This deciduous or semi evergreen, narrow crowned tree found from Arizona eastward, and also New Mexico grows 60′ feet tall, although half that is more likely. It has scaly dark brown bark. It produces smallish, blunt tipped leaves with a glossy upper surface and densely woolly undersides. In summer it bears flowers that are followed in autumn by purplish black fruit, to 1″ long, that persist into winter.
Zones 6-11
