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"The American sweetgum is a large shade tree with an ovular shape. It can be found throughout most of the United States as a forest tree in the Southeast and an ornamental in gardens and cities. This tree is often planted in parks where its height, ranging from 70-120 feet, and sprawling branches, spreading 40-50 feet, create shade for visitors. You can identify the American sweetgum by its star-shaped leaves and hard, spiky, spherical fruits."

https://naturewalk.yale.edu/trees/altingiaceae/liquidambar-styraciflua/american-sweetgum-11
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Bommom

Oh, no! Your mother threw it away behind your back. :-(

Bommom

Haha, Mike. Will I be able to visit your frog in a museum after the coronavirus settles down?

Bill_I_Am

Oh, I see what you mean.

Bill_I_Am

Mike was that for scaring children or holiday decoration or...?

Bommom

Thanks for their real name, Bill. Just don't try biting into one.

Bill_I_Am

Thanks, I didn't have such a project, Gayle. Those spikey little things are what the Yale site calls the fruits.

Bommom

Haha, knd! This tree isn't old enough yet to have produced those spikey little balls, but I sure remember them from when I was little. We'd dip them in a glop of white powdered clothes detergent, let them dry and hang them on the Christmas tree. Hopefully, this tree is out of the way enough that when it starts producing spike balls they can just stay where they drop.

After you have dipped 280 or so of those little spiky thingys in gold paint and given them to everyone you know for Christmas decorations you just have to sell the house before the season comes around again -- but the other seasons are gorgeous

Bommom

You're welcome, Bill. This is making up for your 10th-grade leaf project in case you didn't have one way back then.

Bill_I_Am

Thanks for the next in the continuing series on tree education. The fruits look familiar but I don't think we have sweetgums in Colorado.

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