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Originally Posted by Rain Man
What's wrong with Maples? We have two large maple trees and they mind their own business and give us shade. We have nothing negative to say about them and like them a lot.
Years ago I lived at a house that had a tree that we called a gumball tree. I have no idea what the real name was, but it shed seed pods that were about 1.5 inches in diameter with sharp points all over them. You couldn't mow and you couldn't rake with those things all over the yard. Anyone know the tree I'm talking about? It was a big tree, so if you planted one you could ruin half of the neighbor's yard at the cost of also ruining half of your own yard.
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I didn't realize what these were called. We had them at our old house.
They would produce spikey balls that were green at first, then turned brown. Seemed like every other year was when they would produce an overwhelming amount of these spikey balls. We called them ankle breakers. We would rake them up every 2-4 weeks and they would fill one of those big yellow lawn bags. We had one on our property near the street and so did our next door neighbor. Both had been there for decades and the roots were causing the sidewalk to come up. My kids loved it when they were young as they used them for skateboards and bike ramps. We hated those trees. We had the one on our property cut down and the sidewalk fixed a few years before we eventually moved.