Gum Tree Bark Uses. The gum trees were here when i bought this house many years ahgo so i am not sure what kind they are. Many gum trees are identified by the uses of their bark.

Buy and sell items cars properties and find or offer jobs in your area. The trees spike ball fruit is almost as telltale for identification as the star shaped leaves. The cherokee utilized the sweet gum tree bark sap as a diaphoretic febrifuge dermatological treatment and as a general medicine.
As the resin ages it solidifies the form in which it was historically exported in barrels.
I guess that wasn t much help. From pioneers to modern day children have known how to. It is a kind of native balsam or resin resembling turpentine. It may be clear reddish or yellow with a pleasant smell like ambergris.