buttonball

American plane tree

Buttonball is another name for the American sycamore tree, or for the round, spiky seed balls it produces.

The name comes from the button-shaped fruit clusters that hang from the branches through winter.

Also called buttonwood.

tree

sycamore

Broad-leaved deciduous shade tree

mottled · exfoliating · deciduous · canopy · trunk · woodland · landscaping · hardwood · timber · street tree

seedpod

fruit

Edible plant ovary

fuzzy · spiky · brown · ornamental · dangling · cluster · dispersal · wind-borne · autumn · dried

Family

ball, button, unbutton, unbuttoned, unbuttons, rebutton, rebuttoned, rebuttons, buttonbush

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