buttonball

Sycamore, Buttonwood, Buttonball Tree (local and common names).

American buttonball or sycamore trees are distinguished by rough balls which remain hanging on long stems throughout the winter.

Under the old buttonball tree the broods of young chickens ran from early morning to night.

But for permanence the maple, the oak, the buttonball are all better.

Two trees were to be planted, one little maple near the building; another, a buttonball tree, down on the lower grade.