Liquidambar styraciflua - Wikipedia
WEBIt has many names, including liquid amber or copalm balsam. It is a kind of native balsam, or resin, resembling turpentine. It may be clear, reddish, or yellow, with a pleasant smell like ambergris. As the resin ages, it solidifies, the form in …
Liquidambar - Wikipedia
WEBLiquidambar, commonly called sweetgum[2] (star gum in the UK), [3] gum, [2] redgum, [2] satin-walnut, [2] or American storax, [2] is the only genus in the flowering plant family Altingiaceae and has 15 species. [1] . They were formerly often treated in Hamamelidaceae.
Liquidambar styraciflua - Plant Finder - Missouri Botanical Garden
WEBLiquidambar styraciflua, commonly called sweet gum, is a low-maintenance deciduous shade tree that is native from Connecticut to Florida and Missouri further south to Texas, Mexico and Central America.
Liquidambar styraciflua (Sweet Gum) - BBC Gardeners World …
WEBLiquidambar styraciflua (sweet gum) originates from eastern USA and was originally introduced to the UK in the seventeenth century. It's one of the best trees for autumn leaf colour. As temperatures fall in autumn, its large, lobed, maple-like leaves turn from green to glowing shades of orange, red, yellow, or purple.
Liquidambar styraciflua (Sweet Gum) - Gardenia
WEBNative to eastern North America, Liquidambar styraciflua (Sweet Gum) is a magnificent, large, deciduous tree adorned with a straight trunk and a broadly conical crown. Narrow and erect when young, the tree develops an oblong to rounded crown at maturity.
Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Worplesdon’ (Sweet Gum) - Gardenia
WEBRivaling the best Japanese maples, award-winning Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Worplesdon’ (Sweet Gum) is a magnificent, deciduous tree adorned with a straight trunk and a broadly conical crown at maturity.
American Sweetgum | Yale Nature Walk - Yale University
WEBLiquidambar styraciflua is known as the American sweetgum. It is a deciduous tree that can be found in southeastern U.S., as well as southern Mexico and Central America. The sweetgum is a fast-growing tree that develops a significant taproot that tolerate high moisture levels in soil.
Liquidambar styraciflua (American Sweet Gum, Redgum, Red …
WEBSmall, bright yellow-green (tinged with red) flowers mature on stalks in spring. The female flowers give way to spherical, spiny fruiting heads, known as gumballs, which are composed of numerous tiny capsules, each bearing one or two-winged seeds.
American Sweetgum | Yale Nature Walk - Yale University
WEBThe American sweetgum gets its scientific and common name from the gummy sap that is found directly under that bark and seeps out when the tree is wounded. This resin is sometimes called "liquid amber" because of its golden color and sweet odor. The bark on the trunk is light gray in color with deep, rounded ridges.
Liquidambar styraciflua 'Gumball' - North Carolina Extension …
WEBGumball sweetgum is a cultivar of L. styraciflua, a woody, deciduous, flowering tree often found in river bottoms and swamps in North Carolina. The 'Gumball' cultivar is a round, dwarf, compact shrub version of the parent plant with a …