Sweetgum is a tree found in moist to wet hammocks, bluff forests, and floodplain forests. It is frequent from the northern counties south to the central peninsula and blooms from spring to summer (Wunderlin, 2003).
Yet, the sweetgum does have merit as a shade tree.
It grows quickly in heavy clay soils where more finicky trees give up and die. As a young tree, it has an oval form and reaches 40 feet quickly. Old trees in good sites will be three times as tall.
Sweetgum trees stand between the Art building and MacKenzie Hall. They are vigorous shade trees from the southeastern United States with star-shaped leaves that smell sweetly resinous if scratched.
Rotundiloba Sweetgum Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Rotundiloba' Leaves Main Page Info Cultivar ...
American Sweet Gum, Sweet Gum, Sweetgum
Good as shade trees or planted in informal groves, their star-shaped leaves turn red, yellow, orange or purple in fall. Their round spiny fruits are shaped like the maces that medieval knights once carried.
( 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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Many sweetgum cultivars exist. An account of them appeared in the Journal of Arboriculture, November 1984; 10(11) pages 309-312. My 1996 book North American Landscape Trees described 17 cultivars.
Sweetgum foliage turns deep red to burgundy in autumn while the inset shows two of the spikey fruits a'danglin from the tree.
Usage ...
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 ...
American Sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua, Altingiaceae).
About 210 eudicot families include trees.[1][2]
Adoxaceae (Moschatel family) ...
Sweetgum is an alternative to Silver Maple in terms of a shade tree noted for its quick growth at new homesites; however, this approximately fifteen year old tree has about five years left before its owners consider cutting it down, ...
Rainbow' Ligustrum japonicum Japanese Privet Ligustrum sinense 'Variegatum' Variegated Chinese Privet Ligustrum vulgare European Privet Ligustrum x vicaryi Golden Vicary Privet Lindera benzoin Spicebush Liquidambar styraciflua American Sweetgum ...
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.
Blue gum (Eucalyptus globulus)
Gum tree (Eucalyptus species)
Lemon-scented gum (Eucalyptus citriodora)
Sweet gum, sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua) ...
prickles and thorns on branches
large clusters of small white flowers in mid summer
coarse, heavy branching
shallow, palmate lobing on the leaves
leaves resemble sweetgum or some maples ...
A few 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 ...
Sugarberry (Celtis laevigata)
Sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua)
Tupelo (Nyssa)
Walnut (Juglans)
Winterberry (Ilex verticillata)
Witchhazel (Hamamelis)
Yellowwood (Cladrastis lutea)
Zelkova (Zelkova serrata) ...
 See also: Liquidambar, Liquidambar styraciflua, Green, Maple, Orange
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