black gum

Noun

• a small mallee with rough dark-colored bark toward the butt; yields a red eucalyptus kino gum

• columnar tree of eastern North America having horizontal limbs and small leaves that emerge late in spring and have brilliant color in early fall

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  black mallee , black sally , Eucalytus stellulata , sour gum , pepperidge , Nyssa sylvatica