Yeah looks to me like a particularly bold and large leaved tupelo...could just be a byproduct of I dunno, being fertilized and well watered with that tree gator.

Mine is developing this tendency to have upswept branches, but not to the same degree.

From a distance it looked almost like a live oak or water oak, but upon closer inspection, and feeling the leaves, I could tell it was not. I was a bit let down, but it's still a nice tree. Will keep an eye on it for fall color.

I thought the leaves looked a bit small and narrow for tupelo, but I've not really studied them.

To be honest I've only really observed tupelos for sale in containers, rather than mature ones. But for ones I've seen for sale, this leaf size is if anything slightly large. But I think this happens with some plants (grown from seed). When I planted mine it was a spindly 3/8" caliper, 4' tall tree that was under potted. Now that it is about 7' and has a thicker trunk, maybe 2", the leaves are getting bigger. It hasn't grown up that much, more out. I suspect it is has been developing a tap root since I do not water it. In the coming couple years I expect some improved vertical growth. It's maybe 5 years old at this point.

So which tupelo do you think? sylvatica (Black gum)? or maybe biflora (Swamp black gum)? Or?

Leaves look narrower to me than I've seen on sylatica, so maybe biflora?

That is a handsome tree. Almost looks like a cross between a live oak and an olive.

I've got mature trees of both sylvatica and s. biflora on my place. Not a whole lot of difference between the two that I can see.

I've got lots of volunteers on some land I've left to nature, and only one that has that upswept branching. Foliage is average sylvatica unfortunately, so it doesn't particularly stand out. One I have my eye on seems to want to weep, and has large, good green glossy foliage.

It looks like olive to me.

kentrees: Now if it was evergreen, we'd really have something! Yes, the upward leaves look live oak-ish, but the fruit says Nyssa.

Pretty tree

Ends of shoots in particular are those of Nyssa. If there isn't a whole set of trees on the site with the same specific features then not necessarily a named clone.