The Missouri Botanical Garden has rediscovered that one of its sweet gum trees—hidden in plain sight until now—was a seed aboard the maiden voyage of space shuttle Discovery almost 35 years ago. Ahead ...

Sweet gum is a common tree in the forests of central New Jersey and points south, and from the Atlantic to Texas. It also grows in the mountains of Mexico and Central America, a survivor from a time ...

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Some years, fall foliage in Mississippi can be somewhat lackluster, but there is one tree, the Sweet Gum, that never fails to sport vibrant, autumnal color. The varying hues of its star-shaped leaves ...

Ninety-one-year-old West Ashley resident Russell Horres has had a love-hate relationship with his sweet gum tree. When it was a tiny sprout, he babied it. But now that it’s a 70-foot-tall monster, ...

Springfield folklore says the city’s population of sweet gum trees (and their annoying, spiky “gum ball” seed pods) dates from the great elm tree die-off of the late 1940s. Sweet gums indeed were one ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHESTERFIELD, MO (KTVI) – If you have a ...

The gum tree is an important hardwood. It makes fine wooden furniture and has beautiful fall foliage, even if its fruit of spiked balls is aggravating. It is a type of eucalyptus tree that grows ...

A sweet gum tree is set to be planted in Ashbourne town centre to replace a "poor specimen" being removed. Derbyshire Dales District Council said in August the Norway maple tree in Victoria Square, ...

Most people who have Sweet Gum trees develop a “love-hate” relationship with their tree or trees. These trees have pretty star-shaped leaves with either 5 or 7 points. They grow pyramidal in shape to ...

"How is gum made?" a participant in the Libertyville Parks Teen Travelers bike camp asked. The story of gum is not all sweet and snappy. Chewing gum goes way back - about 2,000 years. People through ...