Southeast Missouri State University�s iconic �gum tree� has met an early demise. The university announced Friday on its social media accounts the tree had been split in two. In an email to the ...

"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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

MUNCIE, Ind. (WTHR) - Ball State University's popular "Gum Tree" is no more. Someone cut down the tree on the university's campus, where the tradition of sticking used chewing gum to the tree's bark ...

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 ...

There are fewer of those pesky sweet gum trees in Springfield these days, but still far more than most people would prefer. A list provided by the Public Works Department shows that 23 sweet gum trees ...

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 ...