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Tupelo

The tupelos, or pepperidge tree, genus Nyssa, are a small genus

Genus

A genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the classification of living and fossil organisms. The taxonomic ranks are domain , kingdom , phylum, class , order , family , genus, and species....
of about 9 to 11 species of tree

TREE

TREE was a Boston hardcore punk band formed in the summer of 1990. They were active in the Boston music scene until disbanding in 2002....
s with alternate, simple leaves. Most are highly tolerant of wet soil

Soil

Soil is the naturally occurring, unconsolidated or loose covering on the Earth's surface. Soil is composed of particles of broken rock that have been altered by chemical and environmental processes including weathering and erosion....
s and flood

Flood

A flood is an overflow of an expanse of water that submerges land, a deluge. In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide....
ing, some needing to grow in such environments. Five of the species are native to eastern North America

North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
from the extreme south of Canada

Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
south to eastern Mexico

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
; the others to east and south Asia

Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....
from China

China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
south to Malaysia

Malaysia

Malaysia is a federation that consists of States of Malaysia in Southeast Asia with a total landmass of . The capital city is Kuala Lumpur, while Putrajaya is the seat of the federal government....
and west to the Himalaya.

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The tupelos, or pepperidge tree, genus Nyssa, are a small genus

Genus

TREE

Soil

Flood

North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
from the extreme south of Canada

Canada

Mexico

Asia

China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
south to Malaysia

Malaysia

Dove tree

The Dove tree is a medium-sized deciduous tree, usually placed in the tupelo family , but is sometimes included in the dogwood family , and by yet others given family status of its own, as Davidiaceae....
, occurs in China.

Tupelos are valued honey

Honey

Honey is a sweet fluid produced by honey bees , and derived from the nectar of flowers. According to the United States National Honey Board and various international food regulations, "honey stipulates a pure product that does not allow for the addition of any other substance?this includes, but is not limited to, water or other sweeteners...
plants in the southeastern United States, particularly in the Gulf Coast

Gulf Coast of the United States

The Gulf Coast region of the United States comprises the coasts of states which border the Gulf of Mexico. The states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida are known as the Gulf States....
region, producing a very light, mild-tasting honey. In northern Florida

Florida

Florida is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the northeast....
, beekeepers

Beekeeping

Beekeeping is the maintenance of honey bee colonies, commonly in beehives, by humans. A beekeeper keeps bees in order to collect honey and beeswax, for the purpose of pollination agriculture, or to produce bees for sale to other beekeepers....
keep beehives along the river

River

A river is a natural stream of water, usually freshwater, flowing toward an ocean, a lake, or another stream. In some cases a river flows into the ground or dries up completely before reaching another body of water....
swamp

Swamp

A swamp is a wetland featuring temporary or permanent inundation of large areas of land, by shallow bodies of water. A swamp generally has a substantial number of hammock , or dry-land protrusions, covered by aquatic vegetation, or vegetation that tolerates periodical inundation....
s on platforms or floats during tupelo bloom to produce certified tupelo honey, which commands a high price on the market because of its flavor; monofloral honey

Monofloral honey

Monofloral honey is a type of honey which has a high value in the marketplace because it has a distinctive flavor or other attribute due to its being predominantly from the nectar of one plant species....
made from the nectar

Nectar source

A nectar source is a flowering plant that produces nectar as part of its reproductive strategy. These plants create nectar, which attract pollinating insects and sometimes other animals such as birds....
of the Ogeechee Tupelo has such a high ratio of fructose

Fructose

Fructose is a simple Reducing sugar sugar found in many foods and is one of the three important dietary monosaccharides along with glucose and galactose....
to glucose

Glucose

Glucose , a monosaccharide also known as grape sugar, blood sugar, or corn sugar, is a very important carbohydrate in biology....
that it does not crystallize.

The Apalachicola River

Apalachicola River

The Apalachicola River is a river, approximately 112 mi long in the U.S. state Florida. The river's large watershed, known as the ACF River Basin for short, drains an area of approximately 19,500 sq mi into the Gulf of Mexico....
in the Florida Panhandle

Florida Panhandle

The Florida Panhandle is the region of the state of Florida which includes the westernmost 16 List of counties in Florida in the state. It is a narrow strip lying between Alabama on the north and the west, Georgia also on the north, and the Gulf of Mexico to the south....
is the center for tupelo honey. The honey is produced wherever tupelo trees (three species) bloom in southeastern USA, but the purest and most expensive version (which is certified by pollen analysis

Melissopalynology

Melissopalynology is the study of honey. By extension, it also includes the study of any pollen contained in honey as well as the pollen's source....
) is produced in this valley. In a good harvest year, the tupelo honey crop produced by a group of specialized Florida beekeepers approaches US$

United States dollar

The United States dollar is the unit of currency of the United States and was defined by the Coinage Act of 1792 to be between 371 and 416 grains of silver ....
1,000,000.

Tupelo wood is used extensively by artistic woodcarvers

Wood carving

Wood carving is a form of Woodworking by means of a cutting tool held in the hand , resulting in a wooden figure or figurine or in the sculpture ornamentation of a wooden object....
, especially for carving ducks and other wildfowl. In commerce, it is used for shipping containers and interior parts of furniture, and is used extensively in the veneer

Wood veneer

In woodworking, veneer refers to thin slices of wood, usually thinner than 3 millimetre , that are typically glued onto core panels to produce flat panels such as doors, tops and panels for Cabinet , parquetry flooring and parts of furniture....
and panel industry for crossbanding, plywood

Plywood

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cores, and backs. The wood can be readily pulped

Wood pulp

Pulp is a dry fibrous material prepared by chemically or mechanically separating fibers from wood or fiber crops.Pulp can be either fluffy or formed into thick sheets....
and is used for high-grade book and magazine papers. In the past, the hollow trunks were used for bee gums

Beehive (beekeeping)

A beehive is an enclosed structure in which some honey bee species of the genus Apis live and raise their young. Natural beehives are naturally-occurring structures occupied by honey bee colonies, while domesticated honey bees live in man-made beehives, often in an apiary....
to hold beehives

Beehive (beekeeping)

Autumn leaf color

Autumn leaf color is a phenomenon that affects the normally green leaves of many deciduous trees and shrubs by which they take on, during a few weeks in the autumn season, one or many colors that range from red to yellow....
.

Tupelos are used as food plants by the larva

Larva

A larva is a young form of animal with indirect developmental biology, going through or undergoing metamorphosis .The larva can look completely different from the adult form, for example, a caterpillar differs from a butterfly....
e of some Lepidoptera

Lepidoptera

Lepidoptera is an order of insect that includes moths and butterfly. It is one of the most speciose orders in the class Insecta, encompassing moths and the three superfamilies of butterfly, skipper , and Hedylidae....
species, including Endoclita damor
Endoclita

Endoclita is a genus of moths of the family Hepialidae. There are 60 described species found in eastern and southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent....
.

In pop culture

In 1971, musician and songwriter Van Morrison
Van Morrison

George Ivan Morrison Order of the British Empire is a Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, author, poet and multi-instrumentalist, who has been a professional musician since the late 1950s....
released an album entitled Tupelo Honey
Tupelo Honey

Tupelo Honey is an album by Northern Ireland singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released in 1971 . The album yielded two hit singles, the hymn-like Tupelo Honey , as well as the rhythm and blues-flavored "Wild Night"....
featuring the popular title song, "Tupelo Honey
Tupelo Honey (Van Morrison song)

"Tupelo Honey" is a popular song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison and the title song from his 1971 album, Tupelo Honey....
."
Buddaheads also perform a revamped version of "Tupelo Honey
Tupelo Honey (Van Morrison song)

"Tupelo Honey" is a popular song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison and the title song from his 1971 album, Tupelo Honey....
."
In the first live album Live Seeds
Live Seeds

Live Seeds is the first official live Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds album, including the never-studio-recorded "Plain Gold Ring", a cover of a Nina Simone song....
(1993) of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds there is a song named Tupelo.
In the 1997 movie, Ulee's Gold
Ulee's Gold

Ulee's Gold is a 1997 in film written and directed by Victor Nu?ez, and starring Peter Fonda in the title role. Co-stars include Patricia Richardson, Christine Dunford, Tom Wood , Jessica Biel, J....
, the title character is a beekeeper who produces tupelo honey (the "gold" being the fine-flavored, high quality honey).
Tupelo Honey is the name of a folk rock band in the vein of Patty Griffin
Patty Griffin

Patty Griffin, born Patricia Jean Griffin, March 16, 1964, is an United States singer-songwriter, musician, and Grammy award nominee, whose songs have been performed by the elite of several musical genres....
and the Indigo Girls
Indigo Girls

Indigo Girls are an American folk rock duo, consisting of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. They got their start in Atlanta, Georgia as a regular act at The Little 5 Points Pub and were tangentially part of the Athens, Georgia college rock scene that included The B-52's, Pylon , R.E.M., The Georgia Satellites, and Love Tractor....
.
Uncle Tupelo
Uncle Tupelo

Uncle Tupelo was an alternative country music group from Belleville, Illinois, Illinois, active between 1987 and 1994. Jay Farrar, Jeff Tweedy, and Mike Heidorn formed the band after the lead singer of their previous band, The Primitives, left to attend college....
was an alternative country
Alternative country

Alternative country is a term used to describe a number of country music genre that tend to differ from Mainstream or pop music country music....
band.
In Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was a prolific and genre-bending American novelist known for works blending satire, black comedy and science fiction, such as Slaughterhouse-Five , Cat's Cradle , and Breakfast of Champions .He was also known for his Humanism beliefs and being honorary president of the American Humanist Association....
's novel Timequake
Timequake

Timequake is a semi-autobiography work by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. published in 1997. Vonnegut described the novel as a "stew", in which he alternates between summarizing a novel he had been struggling with for a number of years, and waxing nostalgic about various events in his life....
, Kilgore Trout
Kilgore Trout

'Kilgore Trout' is a fictional character created by author Kurt Vonnegut. He was originally created as a fictionalized version of author Theodore Sturgeon , although Trout's consistent presence in Vonnegut's works has also led critics to view him as the author's own "alter ego." Trout is also the titular "author" of the novel Venus on the Hal...
's last poem goes: "When the tupelo/ Goes poop-a-lo / I'll come back to youp-a-lo".
Sikth, a British "weirdcore" band, recorded a song entitled "Tupelo" on their album "Trees Are Dead and Dried Out, Wait for Something Wild."

Tupelo

In pop culture

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