This day's high pollen levels where I live are contributed to by the liquidambar tree, also known as sweet gum. We have one right down the street from us.
It's the resin from the tree that gives us amber after it goes into the earth, capturing plant or insect life into fossils as the resin hardens. Some amber in sand around the Baltic Sea is 40 to 60 million years old.
The sweet gum name designates the resin while it is still soft and chewy, but it is mildly bitter rather than sweet, only sweet in comparison with another resin that is extremely bitter!
The leaves of the tree are multicolored in autumn and handsome, and the dried fruit pods that have given forth resins and sweet gum and finally seeds I have used as an element of mobiles I've made.
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