Old Growth Black Gum Swamp in Ontario's deep south
The crown of an ancient Black Gum tree. The oldest known living black gum in Ontario is 580 years old, another was cored and estimated to be 514 years old. These are the oldest hardwood trees in Ontario, and perhaps the oldest hardwoods anywhere in Canada!
The Black Gum Red Maple swamp ecosystem is exceptionally rare in Canada, only a few known examples of this forest type exist in small remnant patches of old growth Carolinian forest near the shores of Lake Erie, in Ontario's far south.
an old Red Oak growing on a hillside in nearby Niagara Falls, The Niagara Peninsula contains some of Ontario's most impressive, and last old growth deciduous forests.
The crown of an ancient Black Gum tree. The oldest known living black gum in Ontario is 580 years old, another was cored and estimated to be 514 years old. These are the oldest hardwood trees in Ontario, and perhaps the oldest hardwoods anywhere in Canada!