Sideroxylon lycioides

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|name = Buckthorn bully

|image = Syderoxylon lycioides - Fruits.jpg

|status = LC

|status_system = IUCN3.1

|status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=IUCN SSC Global Tree Specialist Group. |author2=Botanic Gardens Conservation International |collaboration=BGCI |date=2020 |title=Sideroxylon lycioides |volume=2020 |page=e.T156812221A156820753 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-1.RLTS.T156812221A156820753.en |access-date=20 November 2021}}

|genus = Sideroxylon

|species = lycioides

|authority = L.

|range_map = Sideroxylon lycioides range map 2.png

|range_map_caption = Natural range

|synonyms = Bumelia lycioides{{cite web |title= Sideroxylon lycioides (Buckthorn bumelia) {{!}} Native Plants of North America |url=https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=SILY |website=Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center - The University of Texas at Austin |access-date=15 December 2019}}

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Sideroxylon lycioides, the buckthorn bully,{{PLANTS|id=SILY|taxon=Sideroxylon lycioides|accessdate=14 November 2015}} is a small tree in the family Sapotaceae. It is widely distributed in the southeastern United States from Texas to southeast Virginia.

The fruit pulp is thin but edible and consumed by birds. Livestock browse the plant's foliage.{{cite book|last=Little|first=Elbert L.|title=The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees: Eastern Region|publisher=Knopf|location=New York|year=1980|isbn=0-394-50760-6|page=632}}