so are sycamore...they grow all over the place....it's where i got my FIRST
seed "ball"---- down near that "fort" where they have the big iron
cannons....i picked up quite a few, but only a few germinated; unlike the
abutilon which grows near the golden gate, the sycamores were deliriously
happy when moved to utah (and no!! i did not START an invasion)....there
were already sycamores in utah, but like the "oak" and other trees, they
were scrubby and their seed pods were always immaturish--i wanted a REAL
tree that'd grow tall and be glorious----and it was!!!!!
(simpering ms. i am)
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With Malus toward none, and Cherry-Trees toward all.


From: Ernie Klein
Organization: Not very organized
Newsgroups: rec.gardens,misc.consumers
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 22:14:36 GMT
Subject: Annoying seed things dropped by trees

In article .com,
wrote:

Ernie Klein wrote:
In article .com,
wrote:

Some trees drop something on the ground that are brown, spherical and
have spiky things pointing out. What types of trees do that?

Is there a list of which trees drop which kinds of seeds on the ground?

As someone else said maybe a sweetgum, actually a Liquidambar
styraciflua.

Here is a link to a picture of a tree and the seed pod. Does this look
like yours?

http://www.floridata.com/ref/l/liquidam.cfm

They look like that except that they are brown.

I see those seed things around sidewalks in the bay area.

They turn brown before they drop off the tree.

Liquidamber are a very common sidewalk tree in the Bay Area. Mid
Peninsula is full of them.

--
-Ernie-

"There are only two kinds of computer users -- those who have
suffered a catastrophic hard drive failure, and those who will."

Have you done your backup today?

On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 19:41:53 -0500, RAINDEAR
wrote:

told you so!!!
the liquidambar has green seed balls (bronx raspberry to thee)

it's a SYCAMORE!!!
Not likely. Never seen spikes on a sycamore pod. Like so many tree
parts, the sweetgum/liquidamber pods start out green, turn brown
later, then fall to the ground.

Scott wrote:

wrote:

Some trees drop something on the ground that are brown, spherical
and have spiky things pointing out.

Some people gather them together and make Xmas wreaths out of them --
gold paint, ribbon, etc.

And some people use them as slingshot ammunition.

Not heavy enough unless you figure out how to embed a rock inside.

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Cheers,
Bev
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