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What kind of tree is this

What kind of tree has those round prickly balls that fall in the spring and are a pain to rake up? I would like to know the common name....like....sweet gum or sugar maple. I just want to know what it is called.

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Those would be Sweetgum trees

[img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/86/Sweetgum_tree_seed_pods.jpg[/img]

Wikipedia has an interesting article about them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweetgum



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