Maple seeds, sycamore seeds, whirlybirds or – if you live up north – spinning jennies. Whatever you call them, winged samara seeds are the helicopters of the natural world, whipping their blades ...

The enormous sycamore tree towered almost 50 feet above the ground with gnarled branches fanning out in every direction. For more than 100 years, the tree flourished in a dip between two rolling hills ...

Acer pseudoplatanus, also known as the sycamore maple or plain sycamore in the UK, is a tree that’s often known more for its negative qualities than its positive – large, fast growing and prone to ...

There have been reports recently of an increase in the deaths of horses and ponies as a result of their eating the seeds or ‘helicopters’ from sycamore trees. Due to their shape, such seeds can travel ...

Horse owners have been warned by vets that a bumper crop of sycamore seedlings this spring could lead to their animals being poisoned. Millions of saplings have grown as a result of the weather ...