I remember playing with gumballs from a gumball tree as a kid, but didn’t pay a lot of attention to their stages of development then. Have you ever looked at a gumball up close in all of its stages of development? They are very interesting. They go from being a small, yellowish-green gumball that is closed up and contains seeds, to a brown, hollow gumball. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The gumball, from the tree Liquidambar styraciflua<\/em>, has 20 or more seed chambers each containing tiny seeds that look like insect wings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The spikes on the outside of the gumball look like crocheting needles and I have heard that gumballs can be strung together and decorated to make Christmas decorations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is amazing, the details that can be found when looking at trees up close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I remember playing with gumballs from a gumball tree as a kid, but didn’t pay a lot of attention to their stages of development then. Have you ever looked at a gumball up close in all of its stages of development? They are very interesting. They go from being a small, yellowish-green gumball that is… <\/p>\n