This tree is great for bee food as it produces ample pollen when mature. In SE USA the tupelo honey is famous, as in the Van Morrison song!

Its other benefits are:

• excellent autumn colour
• dense foliage for wind breaking and screening
• leaves are dark, matt green and lush
• shade
• interesting drooping branches, of slender, sinuous form
• tolerates damp sites but well-drained
• coppices well
• fruit are blue-black berries