CREATURE FROM THE BLACK TEA LAGOON (SWAMP TUPELO)

Written By Alex Crowson
 

Out of the black tea lagoon comes a swamp monster! It’s the swamp tupelo (Nyssa biflora)—swollen butt and all—who has learned how to breathe… underwater.

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Cover art by Jillian Barthold
Music by Aves and The Mini-Vandals
Episode cover photo by denisbin

Additional Reading:
Water Tupelo (Nyssa biflora)
Inductive flood tolerance in swamp tupelo
Alcoholic Fermentation in swamp tupelo
Swamp forests

 
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