Sweet gum, magnolia, pecan and oak merit mention as most prolific droppers of leaves, nuts, seeds and branches. We’re only missing the catalpa to make a perfect score of overachievers outside ...

Gloucester County Sweet gum trees look amazing in the autumn | Gloucester County Nature Club Updated: Aug. 30, 2017, 12:21 p.m. | Published: Aug. 30, 2017, 11:21 a.m.

Shane Vaughn / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 3.0 The straight trunk of a sweet gum tree is characterized by gray-brown bark that has narrow, deep ridges. 4 The star-like leaf has five or seven lobes ...

That year, Booth and the league distributed 10,000 trees – “hard maple, elm, white ash, sweet gum and other varieties.” Sweet gums made up half of 1938’s 10,000 trees; the rest were sycamores.