Many of the trees - like this one - along downtown Main Street have had to be removed because they've exceeded their life spans. The city now plans to plant new trees and hang flower baskets on Main, ...

For Southerners, the mention of tupelo trees brings to mind the unique honey. The river swamps of north Florida and south Georgia are the habitat of the Ogeechee tupelo (Nyssa ogeche), source of the ...

As I approached the tupelo trees (Nyssa sylvatica) at the edge of our property last Saturday, I noticed a faint humming sound. I looked closely among the leaves and found dozens of honeybees busy ...

I want to highlight two of the “trees for bees” that I mentioned last week. One is Nyssa sylvatica, a.k.a. black gum or tupelo. I fell in love with this tree in the Connecticut woods near where I grew ...

Tupelo honey may be the only variety of honey to have an album and a romantic song named after it, not to mention a city in Mississippi. That album, by Van Morrison, released in 1971, put the ...