Black gum

Sweet gums and black gums and sourwoods made the woods bright now when oaks and hickories had just begun to look dull and faded.

Old settlers learned from the bees and built their own beehives with two-foot sections sawn from the trunks of hollow black gums.

The sanctuary's other habitats include forests of black cherry, red cedar, black locust, beech, and oak, with red maples and black gums in wet areas.

2009, Tricia Telep, The Eternal Kiss, 2010, Large Print Edition, page 67, He grinned, displaying crooked teeth and black gums. Yikes.