The City of Erie celebrated Arbor Day by planting a Black Gum Tupelo tree in East Perry Square.
The tree honors Erie’s ecological past while also acknowledging the challenges we could face in the future.
The Black Gum Tupelo is heat tolerant, adapts better to a warming climate than other native trees, and can handle flooding and minor droughts. The trees have straight trunks, horizontal limbs, small greenish-white spring flowers, that are a great source of nectar for bees, and leaves that provide fall color…