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LIQUIDAMBAR
Commonly known as Sweet gum
THE autumn leaf-colour tree. The Sweet gum of the USA and Mexico with its maple-like (but tougher) leaves, breathtaking oranges, reds and purples and its gumball fruits, small, woody clusters that hang from branches in winter like those of London planes but spikier.
Genus of 4 species of deciduous trees from moist woodland in eastern and southwestern Asia, North America and Mexico. The timber is used for furniture and veneers. The hardened resin from L. styraciflua can be chewed as gum.
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Deciduouspalmately 3- to 7- lobed leaves.
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TreeUpright, open habit. Inconspicuous yellow-green flowers. Female ones are followed by spiky, spherical fruit clusters.
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Full sunFor best autumn colour. -
Partial shade
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Additional Features
Good to knowGrown for their maple-like leaves which colour well in autumn and upright, open habit. A splendid specimen tree in a lawn.
Pests & DiseasesNone
Place of originEastern and southwestern Asia, North America, Mexico. -
Soil ConditionsFertile moist well-drained soilNeutral to acid soil
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Buy Varieties of LIQUIDAMBAR
LIQUIDAMBAR acalycina
large three lobed leaves are bronze-purple at first fading to dark green. A hardy Chinese species which holds its leaves well into winter
Gift-wrapping available
LIQUIDAMBAR formosana
broadly conical tree. 3-lobed leaves with autumn colour
Gift-wrapping available
LIQUIDAMBAR orientalis
shrubby tree. 5-lobed leaves turning yellow and orange in autumn
Gift-wrapping available
LIQUIDAMBAR styraciflua
maple foliage with excellent autumn colouring, liquid-amber describes it perfectly
Gift-wrapping available
LIQUIDAMBAR styraciflua 'Golden Sun'
new leaves emerge pale yellow in spring, changing to green in summer and turning red in autumn. Golden-yellow stems
LIQUIDAMBAR styraciflua 'Slender Silhouette'
fastigiate habit with spectacular autumn colour in hues of orange through red to purple
Gift-wrapping available
LIQUIDAMBAR styraciflua 'Worplesdon'
long narrow lobes to the leaves which turn yellow and orange in the autumn. Occasionally produces fruit which other varieties do not in the UK
Gift-wrapping available
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