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Liquidambar styraciflua
American Sweet Gum, Sweet Gum, Sweetgum ...

 


Liquidambar styraciflua
( Albomarginata Sweetgum )
This is broadly conical, deciduous tree. White edged, star-shaped leaves are reminiscent of some maples.

sweetgum Hamamelidaceae Liquidambar styraciflua L.   symbol: LIST2
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#270 Liquidambar styraciflua
Common Names: sweetgum, redgum
Family: Hamamelidaceae (witch-hazel Family)
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Liquidambar styraciflua
COMMON: American Sweetgum
LEAVES: Alternate, simple, deciduous, star shaped, dark green, 4 to 7.5" wide and long with 5 to 7 lobes, tones of yellow, purple, and red in the fall ...

Liquidambar Styraciflua 'Golden Treasure'
HAMAMELIDACEÆ; Witch Hazel Family ...

Liquidambar styraciflua
Trees and Shrubs, Bonsai
Seed is surface sown in fall, or sow in spring after stratifying 3 months; light aids germination. Fertile, moist, well-draining soil and fair to good light.

Liquidambar styraciflua : Sweetgum - Whole Plant
Liquidambar styraciflua 'Rotundiloba' : Round-lobed Sweetgum - Foliage
Liquidambar styraciflua 'Variegata' : Variegated Sweetgum - Foliage ...

Liquidambar styraciflua--Sweet Gum
LIQUIDAMBAR INSECTS
Liriodendron tulipifera--Tuliptree, Tulip Poplar ...

Sweetgum
Liquidambar styraciflua
60 to75'
30 to 40'
Sun; prefers deep, moist, well-drained soil; tolerates drought if given ample root spread.

Sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua) - fruits (balls) and weak wooded
Thornless Common Honeylocust -female (Gleditsia triacanthos)
Southern Magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora) - leaf debris
Silver Maple (Acer saccharinum) - weak wooded ...

Two cultivars of Liquidambar styraciflua:
Emerald Sentinal® (‘Clydesform') [Emerald Sentinal Sweetgum]
(plant habit) (info)
‘Rotundiloba' [Rotundiloba Sweetgum]
(leaves) (info) ...

American Sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua, Altingiaceae).
About 210 eudicot families include trees.[1][2]
Adoxaceae (Moschatel family) ...

Ambar - Liquidambar styraciflua
Ambarilla - Abelmoschus moschatus
Ambrosia silvestre - Ambrosia peruviana
Ameo bastardo - Ammi majus
Amiga de noche - Polyanthes tuberosa
Amor de hortelano - Galium aparine
Amor y celos - Rhoeo spathacea ...

Stop 15 - Liquidambar styraciflua
Stop 16 - Prunus 'Okame'
Stop 17 - Sorbus aucuparia
Stop 18 - Abies grandis
Stop 19 - Quercus palustris
Stop 20 - Pinus bungeana
Stop 21 - Pinus densiflora 'Ubraculifera'
Stop 22 - Ulmus carpinifolia ...

The leaves grow to 5 inches long and have five to seven lobes, resembling the leaves of the Sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua). Leaves emerge purple in spring and become glossy and medium green during the growing season.

Amelanchier lamarckii AGM. Height 10m (30ft).
Liquidambar styraciflua - for acid or neutral soils. Height 25m (80ft).
Nyssa sylvatica (tupelo) AGM - acid or neutral soils. Height 20m (70ft).
Paulownia tomentosa AGM. Height 12m (40ft).

On its introduction, the fruitless sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Rotundiloba') seemed like a contender for the title, but we now know it has some warts.

Sweetgum (Liquidambar Styraciflua)
Yellow Birch (Betula alleghaniensis = B. lutea)
Japanese Red Pine (Pinus densiflora)
Red Hickory (Carya ovalis)
Monkey Puzzle (Araucaria araucana)
Black Walnut (Juglans nigra) ...

examples include serviceberry (Amelanchier arborea), redbud (Cercis canadensis), flowering dogwood (Cornus florida), river birch (Betula nigra), fringe tree (Chionanthus virginicus), American holly (Ilex opaca), and sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua).

The basswoods, liquidambars, maples, planes, tulip trees, and other North American families use the five-rib design, but it is an interesting question, discussed under Liquidambar styraciflua, ...

Sugarberry (Celtis laevigata)
Sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua)
Tupelo (Nyssa)
Walnut (Juglans)
Winterberry (Ilex verticillata)
Witchhazel (Hamamelis)
Yellowwood (Cladrastis lutea)
Zelkova (Zelkova serrata) ...

See also: Liquidambar, Sweetgum, Green, Maple, May