Q: We are curious to know the identity of a tree we saw in a park, surviving the Southwest climate that has leaves that look like a maple and a round spiky seed pod. Can you tell us?

Leaves – deciduous, simple, 3-5 shallow lobes, sinuses and margins are serrated, petioles are enlarged at base to enclose bud, stipules are leaflike. Twigs – leaf scar surrounds bud, stipule scar ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A cool, moist spring has led to an increase in sycamore anthracnose and oak anthracnose, diseases affecting the foliage of sycamore and white oak trees. "The diseases appear to some ...

The grand rows of mature sycamores that thread among vintage English cottages and Tudor homes of Yalecrest help define the east-side neighborhood’s historic character. Some of those green elders are ...

This was originally heard in September 2025. Earlier this fall, the Something Wild team, Dave Anderson of the Forest Society, and Chris Martin and Grace McCulloch of NH Audubon, brought a measuring ...