Other trees include sassafras, black gum, and black cherry. Trees include black gum, sassafras and tulip. Hollow sections of black gum trunks were formerly used as bee gums by beekeepers. The black gum are nearly in diameter and 600 years old. Chinook have a black gum line that is present in both salt and freshwater. The black gum tree weighed over a ton and was thirty inches in diameter.