For the first installment in a series on unlikely landmarks, the BPP talks to business owners on Philadelphia's South Street about what locals call the "gum tree." For years, it was a repository for ...

Southeast Missouri State University�s iconic �gum tree� has met an early demise. The university announced Friday on its social media accounts the tree had been split in two. In an email to the ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Residents are divided after their local council voted to have one of the last remaining mature trees on their street removed in response to a campaign by a group of residents. The decision to remove ...

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 ...

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 ...

The hated Tasmanian blue gum tree - better known as a variety of eucalyptus - has been blamed for virtually every evil short of snatching babies out of strollers, but its species can never be removed ...