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There's a tree in your backyard that produces spiked round balls, and you have no idea what it is. We can help you identify it, and explain the purpose of those odd seed pods it drops.
The basidia bear four slender sterigmata of unequal length ranging from 5–10 μm long. The surface spines are made of chains of pseudoparenchymatous hyphae (resembling the parenchyma of higher plants), in which the individual hyphal cells are spherical to elliptical in shape, thick-walled (up to 1 μm), and measure 13–40 by 9–35 μm.
Liquidambar, commonly called sweetgum [2] (star gum in the UK), [3] gum, [2] redgum, [2] satin-walnut, [2] styrax or American storax, [2] is the only genus in the flowering plant family Altingiaceae and has 15 species. [1] They were formerly often treated as a part of the Hamamelidaceae. They are native to southeast and east Asia, the eastern ...
Quercus ilicifolia, commonly known as bear oak or scrub oak, is a small shrubby oak native to the Eastern United States and, less commonly, in southeastern Canada. Its range in the United States extends from Maine to North Carolina , with reports of a few populations north of the international frontier in Ontario . [ 3 ]
American sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua), also known as American storax, [3] hazel pine, [4] bilsted, [5] redgum, [3] satin-walnut, [3] star-leaved gum, [5] alligatorwood, [3] gumball tree, [6] or simply sweetgum, [3] [7] is a deciduous tree in the genus Liquidambar native to warm temperate areas of eastern North America and tropical montane regions of Mexico and Central America.
This brown papery and spiky seed pod stays on long after the leaves have fallen. In poorly drained locations, the tree can still grow but it becomes more open in shape with leaves on the end of long branches - a 'stag-headed' appearance. [5] [6] It is referred to as a blood wood tree: when it is cut, it appears to bleed because of dark red sap. [7]
The little bear cub that was snatched from a tree at an apartment complex in Asheville, North Carolina a few weeks ago is now in recovery at the Appalachian Wildlife Refuge.
In a video shared online by the NCWRC, the small animal can be seen being released and running off frantically into the forest. NCWRC The black bear cub being released into the wild.