Sideroxylon lanuginosum is a shrub or small tree of the family
Sapotaceae. It is native to the
Sun Belt and
Midwest of the
United States as well as Northeastern
Mexico. 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.