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Sideroxylon alachuense
Also called Alachua Sink Buckthorn
Sideroxylon alachuense, known by the common names Alachua bully, silver bully and silvery buckthorn, is a rare species of flowering plant native to the US states of Georgia and Florida. It grows in forested areas on hummocks, or near lime sinks or shell middens, at elevations of less than 200 m (650 feet).
Sideroxylon alachuense is a deciduous tree up to 10 m (33 feet) tall. Stems are armed with thorns but otherwise glabrous. Mature leaf blades are up to 70 mm (2.8 inches) long, shiny dark green above, with the underside silvery pubescent. Note: The underside of newly emergent Sideroxylon tenax leaves can have similar silvery pubescence which, however. will turn coffee-colored as they mature. White flowers are borne in bundles of up to 20 flowers. Berries are black, up to 13 mm (0.5 inches) in diameter.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sideroxylon alachuense by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
