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•LttCL, seeu-uearing spneres, eacn wun a long JJJ&m and about an inch and a half in diame5
slightly smaller than a golf ball. These
e sharp spines and are very hard, te* I remember fights with my North Carolina Jqpusins in which these “gumballs” were used gW ammunition. If hit in the right place with •one of these spiny spheres, one could easily imagine and simulate a mortal wound. |T. Another distinctive characteristic of the [Sweetgum is the corky growth on the twigs. [The older the tree, the larger these corky iridges along the twigs. r V.' The genus of the Sweetgum is 'fiiquidambar, “liquid amber,” in other words. [This is singularly apt, for the tree has an abuntdance of yellowish resin which has a pleasant Itaste and substituted for chewing gum when I Sfeas growing up. The specific name, styraciflua, JCCanslates into “gum flowing.” £ Sweetgum can be a big tree with a height •of up tol50 feet and a trunk diameter of five Ifeet. The trees I see in Virginia are more mod’est in size, however. They grow along Virginia’s fence rows, along with sassafras and red cedar.
The wood of Sweetgum is commonly used
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