Nyssa sylvatica Cornaceae Leaves are simple, alternate, deciduous, elliptical to obovate with an occasional large tooth or two on the margin. Leaf scars with 3 bundle scars. Buds are purple-brown often with yellow hair, and with overlapping scales. Branches are often at 90 degree angles to the trunk. Bark is gray to dark brown, furrowed, becoming blocky on larger stems.
Fruit is a blue-black drupe and the stone is only lightly ridged.
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