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|accepted_name=Nyssa aquatica
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 1058. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Water tupelo;cotton gum
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Nyssaceae;Nyssa;Nyssa aquatica
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Nyssaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Nyssa]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Nyssa aquatica]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 459
|treatment_page=page 460
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees,</b> (6–)10–30 m, base buttressed, proximal limbs spreading to slightly drooping, crown irregular; bark irregularly fissured; twigs puberulent; pith white. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 30–60 mm; blade elliptic to ovate, 8–11(–18) × (2.5–)3.5–5.5(–7.3) cm, herbaceous, base cuneate to rounded, margins entire proximally and usually coarsely dentate distally, apex usually acute, rarely acuminate, often mucronulate, abaxial surface glabrous or puberulent especially along veins, adaxial surface glabrous or sparsely hairy. <b>Inflorescences</b>: peduncle 1–1.5 cm (elongating to 3 cm in fruit), glabrous; staminate (1–)2–5-flowered, pistillate and bisexual 1–2-flowered. <b>Staminate</b> pedicels absent. <b>Flowers</b>: ovary densely hairy. <b>Drupes</b> black to blue or reddish purple, glaucous, oblong, 24–27 mm, punctate; stone 15–20 mm, roughened, often longitudinally ridged.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Swamps, floodplain forests, moist woods.
|elevation=0–100 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ky.;La.;Miss.;Mo.;N.C.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=shea1993a
|text=Shea, M. M., P. M. Dixon, and R. R. Sharitz. 1993. Size differences, sex ratio, and spatial distribution of male and female water tupelo, Nyssa aquatica (Nyssaceae). Amer. J. Bot. 80: 26–30.
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name=Nyssa aquatica
|author=
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Nyssaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Swamps, floodplain forests, moist woods.
|elevation=0–100 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ky.;La.;Miss.;Mo.;N.C.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
|reference=shea1993a
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=Endemic
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|genus=Nyssa
|species=Nyssa aquatica
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