"How is gum made?" a participant in the Libertyville Parks Teen Travelers bike camp asked. The story of gum is not all sweet and snappy. Chewing gum goes way back - about 2,000 years. People through ...

Gum sticks to a lot of things -- bedposts, shoes, sidewalks. And trees -- especially the "gum tree" on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University. The tree, Monday's photo puzzler on the "Faces ...

The tradition of sticking gum to a tree at the top of "Cardiac Hill" on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University dates back to the 1960s and continues to this day. However, the Gum Tree ...

Springfield folklore says the city’s population of sweet gum trees (and their annoying, spiky “gum ball” seed pods) dates from the great elm tree die-off of the late 1940s. Sweet gums indeed were one ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MUNCIE, Ind. – First the demolition of ...

The Missouri Botanical Garden has rediscovered that one of its sweet gum trees—hidden in plain sight until now—was a seed aboard the maiden voyage of space shuttle Discovery almost 35 years ago. Ahead ...

Black gum grows throughout the eastern United States, and is common in dry sites here in the Blue Ridge Province (often in oak and pine forests) up to 5,000 feet or more. Black gum can be 100 feet ...

‘After the 1849 Gold Rush, transpacific shipping was booming. Seeds of the Australian Blue Gum Eucalyptus from Southern Victoria and Tasmania were imported in San Francisco in 1853; by 1860 the young ...