Liquidambar styraciflua
Sweetgum, American sweet gum, Red Gum, Alligator-wood, American Storax, American-storax, Red-gum, Satin-walnut, Sweet-gum, Redgum, Star-leaved Gum, Sweet Gum, Alligatorwood, Gumball Tree, Starleaf-gum, American Sweetgum, Liquidambar styraciflua
Description
A second-sized broadleaf plant used for ornamental purposes. The elegance of its bearing as well as the striking and showy autumnal foliage, which takes on bright shades with golden reflections, confer high aesthetic and landscape value to outdoor spaces, both private and public, such as gardens, parks, large flower beds and street trees. It also adapts well to urban conditions by resisting pollution and performing an important ecological function in the absorption and storage of carbon dioxide.
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Magnoliophyta
- Class
- Angiospermae
- Order
- Saxifragales
- Family
- Altingiaceae
- Genus
- Liquidambar
- Species
- Liquidambar styraciflua
Synonyms (3)
- Liquidambar barbata
- Liquidambar macrophylla
- Liquidambar tuberculata
