I've got about 4 of these in my BY, and I am really tired of the plethora of nuts it drops all year round. Can someone tell me what kind of tree this is, I am under the impression it is sweet gum. The squirrels are really fond of the nuts, they leave a boat load of the fragments behind. I don't know how they are able to break through atleast a 1/8" thick outer shell.
The leaves
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Here are some nuts that fall off these, an outer shell is like a fruit of some sort(shown here after it has dried and split) while the innner shell is hard like a walnut only smaller.
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The tree
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The bark
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