The American sycamore tree ... out of the fruiting "ball" until January through April. The best time to collect the fruiting balls or heads, usually directly off the tree, is just before they ...

The fruit is a ball composed of many closely packed ... If you do not believe your tree (or your sister's) is a sycamore, go to the Mr. Smarty Plants page on Plant Identification, and follow ...

like along suburban streets that get littered with their fruit balls. But those trees are actually London planetrees (Platanus x acerifolia), sycamore lookalikes native to Europe. Planetrees are ...

Our sycamore tree always looks fine in spring ... or 5 years old and generally bears a number of fruit. They grow to about the size of a golf ball then drop off, leaving only a few on the tree ...

Fruit – about 1” in diameter ball of elongated achenes ... True to its name, the Sycamore leaf beetle feeds primarily on the leaves of Sycamore trees. When combined with plane anthracnose disease, ...

We love the sycamore for its large leaves and cool canopy ... and handed him a specimen and encouraged him to massage the ball. It dissolved into a hundred golden tufts of single seeded achenes.

Fruits of sycamore are brown, woody balls that can be seen on the tree, when October month starts. They remain on the tree during winter and then the fully ripe fruit splits to release seeds.

The bark on the lower part of the tree is scaly and brown, while the upper trunk and limbs are smooth, shiny and white. The bark peels revealing patches of white, gray and green. The fruit of the ...

Other trees with "maple-like" leaves—the ... greenish flowers covered with fine hairs, and its fruit resembles small "sticker balls" or "burr balls," which are eaten by birds and chipmunks.

They are more commonly known to children as "itchy balls," and the tree ... London plane trees, a version of sycamore, also have a spherical fruit that make them easy to identify in winter.