Poisonous Sweet Gum Tree Balls

Sweet gum trees are so beautiful until you want to walk barefoot through your lawn.

Poisonous sweet gum tree balls. If your sweet gum is too tall to spray or if you don t want to attempt spraying a small tree you can stop fruit production by having a certified arborist administer a trunk injection. The certified arborist will inject the. Are these things harmful to dogs. The witch s burrs or gum balls of this particular tree were enormous in size i don t think i have ever seen another sweet gum tree in my lifetime that has been this size.

They are hard round balls about 1 1 2 inches in diameter and covered with sharp little bristles that can hurt a dog s paws. The american sweet gum is a popular tree in the st. The balls of the trees are modified fruits that house the seeds until the balls ripen and release the seeds. A tree that is a candidate for the injection must have a trunk at least 2 inches in diameter and the tree cannot have received a spray or soil treatment within two weeks.

I think she may have ingested them this morning. Every subdivision from florissant to kirkwood to maryland heights has several of them. For the best chance of stopping the sweetgum balls hire a certified arborist. American sweetgum trees can be found throughout must of the eastern us.

Sweet gum trees also have unusual fruit. I think my dog has eaten some sweet gum balls from a sweet gum tree. They exist for a reason sweet gum balls start out plump and green but they dry as they mature. She s a flat coated retriever about 75 lbs.

The spines become even spinier and holes open up to reveal seeds inside the balls. According to the lazy landscaper these hard brown spiky balls that can create some serious hazards. Birth control injections for sweet gum trees. While you can t eat the balls or the seeds pioneers once peeled the bark and scraped the resin like solid to produce chewing gum and medicines.

The sweet gum s primary liability according to the makers of this list are the thousands of spiny brown seed balls gum balls if you will that it casts upon the ground around it. She always is trying to eat something but now she s very lethargic and is drinking lots of water. Then the flowers drop preventing the balls from ever forming. Additionally the sweet gum s spiky gum balls hang conspicuously from the tree s smaller.

While the trees were popular for builders and municipalities to plant due to their medium to fast rate of growth and beautiful color they have become an. The tree needs the injections right before it flowers in spring.