Q. We have a large sycamore tree in our yard. Every summer it sheds its bark over a few weeks’ time. I think as it grows it is growing new bark and losing the old bark. Am I correct? – J.C., Walton, ...

The trunks of large sycamores along river valleys throughout Western North Carolina are displaying their bone-white architecture. Like snakes shedding their skins, sycamores exfoliate outer bark so ...

This was originally heard in September 2025. Earlier this fall, the Something Wild team, Dave Anderson of the Forest Society, and Chris Martin and Grace McCulloch of NH Audubon, brought a measuring ...

Once upon a time, there were two species of trees: the Sycamore and the Plane. Platanus occidentalis was the American Sycamore, and Platanus orientalis, was the Oriental Plane. They were separated by ...

Winter brings many trees and shrubs from their most ostentatious to their most subtle beauty. Like a developing photographic image, the textures and colors of various kinds of bark come slowly into ...

Before the Sycamore Drive-In Restaurant in Bethel — serving burgers, fries and root beer floats since 1948 — before the place became the town of Bethel in 1855, maybe before the first Colonial ...