Reply by Lee Barker

wild guess, no checking on leaf shape or bark characteristics: gum.

I can’t wait to see if I win the Gates tires, the Amana freezer, the complete set of Samsonite luggage and the Nash Rambler station wagon!

-- "...in his brain, which is as dry as the remainder biscuit after a voyage, he hath strange places cramm'd with observation, the which he vents in mangled forms." --Shakespeare, "As You Like It"