![]() Tags: #fragrant #deciduous #shade tree #wildlife plant #native tree #pyramidal #moths #fragrant leaves #low maintenance #tsc #fall interest #rabbit resistant #small mammals #food source wildlife #cpp #fire low flammability #NC native #mice #beavers #nitrogen fixation #deer resistant #nighttime garden #children's garden #playground plant #edible fruits #pollinator plant #Braham Arboretum #fantz #larval host plant #Coastal FAC #Piedmont Mountains FAC #bird friendly #food source hard mast fruit #fall color red #moth larvae #tsc-t #hickory horndevil moth #imperial moth #food source winter #landscape plant sleuths course 'Aurea', 'Aurora', 'Burgundy', 'Corky', 'Festival', 'Gumball', 'Oconee', 'Palo Alto', 'Rotundiloba', 'Slender Silhouette', 'Variegata', 'White Star' Profile Video: See this plant in the following landscapes: Plant Walls and Hedges Paul J Ciener Botanical Garden Cultivars / Varieties:ĭwarf, 15 feet high, purple-red fall leaf color.ĭwarf with a shrubby habit to 15 feet high. VIDEO Created by Elizabeth Meyer for " Trees, Shrubs and Conifers" a plant identification course offered in partnership with Longwood Gardens. Trees are not reliably winter hardy in the northern areas of USDA Zone 5. Does not tolerate shade. Avoid alkaline soils. The fruit is a litter problem in lawn areas. Iron chlorosis may occur in alkaline soils. Leaf spots, wood rot, and bleeding necrosis may occur. Insects, Diseases, or Other Plant Problems: Webworms, caterpillars, borers, and scale may cause problems in some areas. Learn more about ' Gumball' sweetgum shrub Cultivar. It tolerates clay, sand, loam, acidic, and well-drained soils. This tree requires full sun to partial shade. The trunk is normally straight and does not divide into double or multiple leaders and side branches are small in diameter on young trees, creating its pyramidal form. Other attributes of the Sweetgum include the ability to fix nitrogen in the soil and provide large areas of shade. On some trees, particularly in the northern part of its range, branches are covered with characteristic corky projections. The beautifully glossy, star-shaped leaves turn bright red, purple, yellow, or orange in the fall (USDA hardiness zones 6 and 7) and early winter (USDA hardiness zones 8 and 9). Sweetgum usually grows in a very straight form which makes it a good species for lumber, furniture, musical instrument components and veneer. ![]() The tree has a shallow root system and should be planted in spring because roots take 3 to 4 months to recover from the shock of transplanting. The tree produces a spherical, spiny fruiting head, known as a gumball, which is composed of numerous tiny capsules, each bearing one or two-winged seeds. Small, bright yellow-green (tinged with red) flowers mature on stalks in spring. The bark is gray-brown with irregular furrows and rough, rounded ridges. The tree has alternate, palmately lobed leaves with toothed margins that mature into a star shape. On most sites, the tree averages 60 to 80 feet high and 2 to 3 feet in diameter. Sweetgum is a deciduous tree that may grow 80 to 120 feet tall with a diameter of 4 feet or more. An alternate name, Redgum, may come from the reddish-brown heartwood found in logs greater than 16 inches in diameter. In Michael Dirr's entry for Sweetgum in his widely recognized Dirr’s Hardy Trees and Shrubs, it states “This lovely tree would be on every gardener’s wish list were it not for the woody, spiny, capsular, 1" to 1 ½" diameter fruit, which abscise through fall and winter.” Its common name, Sweetgum, refers to the aromatic gum that oozes from wounds to the tree. It is often the bane of some homeowner’s existence because of its troublesome fruit. Liquidambar styraciflua, or Sweetgum, is a large, valuable, forest tree frequently found in wet river bottoms, in swamps that frequently flood, and on drier uplands (except the high mountains) throughout North Carolina. Phonetic Spelling lih-kwid-AM-bar sty-rak-ee-FLOO-uh Description
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