An American Sweetgum "Moon Tree" has found its home at Western Carolina University after being selected by NASA’s Artemis I program earlier this semester, the school said. After reviewing hundreds of ...

Nine seedlings are available for order, including silky dogwood, black chokeberry, American sweetgum, forsythia, purple coneflower, red magic daylily, fraser fir, Colorado blue spruce and black ...

The five species included American Sweetgum, Douglas Fir South, Lobolly Pine, Sequoia and Sycamore. The seeds spent four weeks in space and traveled thousands of miles before returning to Earth on ...

Both schools became caretakers of the American Sweetgum Artemis I Moon Trees. Clyde Elementary received its Sweetgum tree on November 14, and Wylie East Intermediate plans to plant its tree this ...

Haywood Community College got a moon tree in 1976, and now, Western Carolina University has one, too.

The Artemis I seeds are limited, with only around 500 seeds flown by NASA. The trees provided to the Big Country schools are American Sweetgum trees.

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Flowering: River birch blooms in early spring with cylindrical, light green flowers and fruiting catkins. The American sweetgum is a native treasure that got its popular name from the gum it releases ...

Carotene is the pigment responsible for displaying yellow colors in the fall. Trees like birch, hickory and ginkgo all ...

Short sleepers cruise by on four to six hours a night and don’t seem to suffer ill effects. Turns out they’re genetically built to require less sleep than the rest of us ...

Wylie East Elementary and Clyde Elementary Schools received sapling trees whose seeds were on the Artemis I spacecraft as it ...