These two are opposite sides of a leaf from a sweet gum tree. It is also sometimes called the "Red Gum", but that runs the risk, on the internet at least, of confusing it with an Australian tree. This tree is a fast growing native that almost always has a perfectly round trunk. It can grow to be quite large, 30" at the base and 60' tall. It is one of the few native trees that will give us a little color in the fall on the Gulf Coast, but only once in every three or four years. Most of the time it does what all the other native trees do, it goes from green to brown to leafless in a couple of weeks. For fall color we imported a tree from China, but I'll talk about it in another post.