Sweetgum resin was chewed as gum long before store-bought gum. Its spiky seed balls hold tiny winged seeds that birds and ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. American sweetgum trees, or Liquidambar styraciflua, are sometimes called ...

Sweetgum trees (Liquidambar styraciflua) are fast-growing and beautiful ornamental trees that often require little pruning to help them remain healthy and flourishing. Even though they need minimal ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. The major maples have leaves divided into three to five lobes, each less than ...

Chemists have found that the seeds of the sweetgum fruit -- also called "gumballs" -- contain significant amounts of shikimic acid, the starting material used to produce the main antiviral agent in a ...

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Sweetgum will be decommissioned after nearly 60 years of service in a ceremony scheduled Wednesday, September 19, at 2:00 p.m. at Coast Guard Group Mobile in Mobile, Ala.