When Pamela Wise-Martinez looks out the window into her back yard in Upper Marlboro, she says the 96-foot-tall sweet gum tree with thick, spiraling branches reminds her of the prehistoric landscape in ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Back in the 1940s, Dutch elm disease devastated the tree population in Springfield, killing more than 3,700 trees by the fall of 1949. Hundreds of volunteers swept through the city during November ...

Q: In July, our 4-year-old sweet gum dropped most of its leaves in just a few days. Just a week before, it looked great and wasn't showing any signs of stress. Given the heavy rains of May and June, I ...

DEAR REGINA: It isn’t entirely clear from your email whether you’re trying to prevent or control a leafminer infestation. I wouldn’t recommend using chemicals as a preventive measure on healthy ...

Q I have noticed some of the leaves on my sweet-gum tree appear cemented together. When pulled apart there appears to have been an insect inside that has eaten the foliage. Should I apply a spray? 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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

Tree removal is necessary by Carla Gable is a well written article and why I love The Norman Transcript. Although, I still think the copy/paste articles by the President Trump Gang of Hate mob should ...