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Scientific Name: | Liquidambar styraciflua |
Common Name: | American sweetgum |
Family Name: | Altingiaceae |
Origin: | Mexico, U.S. - central |
Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
Plant Type: | Tree - deciduous |
Mature Size: | 15 - 22m x 10 - 15m (height x width) |
Habit: | Open, Stiffly upright |
Form: | Oval - vertical, Pyramidal - widely |
Texture: | Medium |
Landscape Uses: | Fall interest, Specimen plant, Woodland margin |
Exposure: | Full sun |
Soil or Media: | Acidic |
Leaves: | Simple, Lobed, Alternate, Soft flexible, Heavily veined, Palmate venation, Glabrous, Orbicular, Serrate |
Flowers: | Raceme, Yellow, Green-yellow, Mar-Apr-May |
Fruit: | Capsule, Multiple fruit, Brown, Black, Aug-Sep, (Persistent) |
Key ID Features: | |
Leaves usually 5 lobed and similar to some maples but are alternate, brilliant fall colours from purple to yellow. Winter ID: branches may have corky outgrowths; leaf scar with three large bundle scars; fruit is a multiple fruit capsule and persists through winter. |