The tradition of sticking gum to a tree at the top of "Cardiac Hill" on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University dates back to the 1960s and continues to this day. However, the Gum Tree ...

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 ...

Black gum grows throughout the eastern United States, and is common in dry sites here in the Blue Ridge Province (often in oak and pine forests) up to 5,000 feet or more. Black gum can be 100 feet ...

I want to highlight two of the “trees for bees” that I mentioned last week. One is Nyssa sylvatica, a.k.a. black gum or tupelo. I fell in love with this tree in the Connecticut woods near where I grew ...

For the first installment in a series on unlikely landmarks, the BPP talks to business owners on Philadelphia's South Street about what locals... Philadelphia's Gum Tree Cut Down MIKE PESCA, host: Let ...

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