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6 mar 2023 · How to Grow and Care for Sweetgum Trees. Plus what to do with the sweetgum balls that fall everywhere. The American sweetgum is a tall, deciduous tree with glossy green leaves in summer, best grown for its fall foliage; often, multiple colors (red, orange, yellow, purplish) will be found on the same plant in autumn.
20 maj 2021 · Sweetgum trees (botanical name Liquidambar) are a species of large deciduous flowering trees with large lobed leaves, small globular flowers, and seed-containing spiky gumballs. Sweetgum trees are identified by their colorful lobed leaves that can be orange, red, yellow, or purple colors in the fall.
23 gru 2021 · The sweet gum tree, also known as American red gum, is a beautiful tree with maple-like leaves that turn spectacular shades of purple, crimson, orange and yellow in autumn. It produces small, insignificant green flowers in spring, these may be followed by burr-like fruits.
Rivaling 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.
Is Liquidambar poisonous? Liquidambar has no toxic effects reported. No reported toxicity to: Birds. Cats. Dogs.
If you peer into a recently-opened hole, you will see two winged seeds measuring only a ¼- to a 1/3-inch long. Each gumball will produce from 30-50 seeds. These seeds are dispersed by the wind and by animals.
This tree is monoecious, meaning that it has both staminate and pistillate structures in the same plant. These flower structures are quite flowers and can be easily damaged in the cold. Fertilization occurs in late spring, and winged seeds, formed within the mature fruit and inside "seed balls," are dispersed by the wind from September to November.
