Nyssa aquatica
While cypress trees are icons of the river swamps of the Deep South, tupelo trees are largely overlooked. They often leave enormous cavities or shells behind after they die, usually large enough for a man to stand inside.
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September 5, 2011 at 2:13 PM
Brian,
Your images of Tupelo trees bring back many memories of fishing on the Old River, an Oxbow of the Ocmulgee as it entered Jeff Davis County. There were sections of that backwater that was covered by huge trees, many which had gapping hollows. When the water was swift and pushed through these stands of Tupelo, fishing in the hollows often produced a mess of Red Breast Bream and Warmouth Perch. Once while fishing with my daddy back in the mid 1950′s, we had left our water jug at home and just had to have a drink so we kneeled at a fast flowing spot and drank our fill of the red tannin stained stuff. After fishing up the stream for a short distance, we discovered a bloated dead swamper with flies swarming, hung on a limb slap-dab in the middle of the flowing water. Though we felt like vomiting, we never came down with anything serious.
Jesse Bookhardt