Q: We are curious to know the identity of a tree we saw in a park, surviving the Southwest climate that has leaves that look like a maple and a round spiky seed pod. Can you tell us?

A sycamore is a grand, stately native tree with attractive, peeling white-and-gray bark and broad, shady leaves. Sadly, sycamores are sometimes affected by a disfiguring fungal disease called ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A cool, moist spring has led to an increase in sycamore anthracnose and oak anthracnose, diseases affecting the foliage of sycamore and white oak trees. "The diseases appear to some ...

The winter landscape can often seem stark and barren, but the native sycamore tree is at its loveliest in bleak mid-winter. Tall and stately with exfoliating bark that exposes the shimmering white ...

The grand rows of mature sycamores that thread among vintage English cottages and Tudor homes of Yalecrest help define the east-side neighborhood’s historic character. Some of those green elders are ...