It is in autumn, of course, that the hackberry earns its name, sugarberry. |
Botanists formerly confused the two, and probably some insist still that sugarberry is only a variety of hackberry. |
In addition to the cabbage palm, tall trees include American elm, laurel oak, pop ash, sugarberry, sweetgum, water hickory, and water locust. |
They identified live oak, sugarberry, and American elm as the most important native species, but with the invasive Chinese tallow tree also important. |
June and I would watch them weave their way through the sugarberry trees toward the pond where they would stop to take a drink, then buzz their way back, plump and full of water, to drop it on the backs of the fanning bees. |
Bush and Van Auken also determined that sugarberry had greatest importance values and highest density of trees in a gallery forest on the floodplain of the San Antonio River. |