Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You’re more likely to be thinking about pulling up young sycamore seedlings if you have a tree nearby, as they self-seed so ...

Q: We bought a sycamore tree from a local nursery 30 months ago. The first summer it started out healthy, but it soon began to develop brown edges on the leaves. The leaves eventually fell prematurely ...

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 ...

Only a few individual trees could be rightly labeled as world famous, but the tree at Sycamore Gap along Hadrian's Wall in northern England was one of them. No wonder its recent felling provoked ...

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?

A sycamore is a grand, stately native tree with attractive, peeling white-and-gray bark and broad, shady leaves. Sadly, sycamores are sometimes affected by a disfiguring fungal disease called ...

Gardeners often think unfondly of sycamores. These are big, resilient, untidy trees, relatively recent arrivals, and of careless habits. Their winged seeds, and the tough little seedlings that sprout ...

Acer pseudoplatanus, also known as the sycamore maple or plain sycamore in the UK, is a tree that’s often known more for its negative qualities than its positive – large, fast growing and prone to ...