''Sideroxylon lanuginosum'' is a shrub or small tree of the family

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. It is native to the Sun Belt and Midwest of the

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. Common names include gum bully, black haw, chittamwood, chittimwood, shittamwood, false buckthorn, gum bumelia, gum elastic, gum woolybucket, woolybucket bumelia, wooly buckthorn, wooly bumelia, ironwood and coma. The fruit of ''Bumelia lanuginosa'' is edible but can cause stomach aches or dizziness if eaten in large quantities. The

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and Comanche tribes both consumed them when ripened. Gum from the trunk of the tree is sometimes chewed by children.

Subspecies

*''Sideroxylon lanuginosum'' subsp. ''lanuginosum'' ( syn. ''Bumelia lanuginosa'', ''Bumelia rufa'')''Bumelia lanuginosa'' at University of Florida
/ref> *''Sideroxylon lanuginosum'' subsp. ''oblongifolium'' (

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) T.D.Penn. (syn. ''Sideroxylon lanuginosum'' ssp. ''albicans'') *''Sideroxylon lanuginosum'' subsp. ''rigidum'' (

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) T.D.Penn.

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