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January 25, 2007 : Liquidambar styraciflua 'Lane Roberts'
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Keywords: Altingiaceae | Liquidambar styraciflua 'Lane Roberts' | 022841-0013-1983
This photograph taken in mid-September of last year is of the same tree that produced this leaf (abstract).
With a quick glance, you might mistake sweet gum for a maple due to a similar leaf shape. However, if you can't recall while taking a closer look that maples have opposite leaves and sweet gums have alternate leaves, you can always look for fruit – you won't mistake that for a maple!
Posted by Daniel Mosquin at January 25, 2007 3:12 AM
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Posted by: Bobbie at January 25, 2007 5:09 AM
Green is gray and black
Keen white composite like crack
Gene panic attack?
Posted by: dale hinton at January 25, 2007 6:53 AM
Liquidambar styraciflua 'Lane Roberts' - Z5 - RHS Index of Garden Plants, Griffiths
Liquidambar styraciflua 'Lane Roberts' - Z6-9 - A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, Brickell, Cole, Zuk
Posted by: Beverley at January 25, 2007 7:15 AM
Ouch ouch ouch - I remember stepping on the seed balls all year round as a kid - they hurt!
Posted by: Eric in SF at January 25, 2007 11:03 AM
British (Hillier Nurseries) introduction.
"A selected clone and one of the most reliable for its autumn colour, which is rich blackish-crimson-red. Bark comparatively smooth."
--The Hillier Manual of Trees & Shrubs.
Being grown in North America by 1971.
Posted by: Ron B at January 25, 2007 11:26 AM
Such interesting info for not bot!
ps: "burgundy", "reminiscence"
Posted by: L at January 25, 2007 12:56 PM
If you let your eyes cross while staring at the side-by-side pics above, you get a really wild pseudo-3D effect.
Posted by: Eric Simpson at January 25, 2007 4:29 PM
If the two above pictures look side-by-side to you, your eyes really must be getting crossed!
Specimen shown looks like the spot is too dry for it. Turf coming right in around it probably doesn't help.
Posted by: Ron B at January 25, 2007 11:53 PM
The sap from the liquidambar tree is collected from scored branches and burned like copal, to which it is related.
Has anyone ever seen a winged form of liquidambar? I found one growing by the lake in Prospect Park Brooklyn, not in a location where you would expect a specimen tree. I thought it was diseased because the bark was exploding out in all directions. I later found a tree a quarter mile away that had a few branches with winged bark. Is this genetic or disease?
Posted by: Karen Vaughan, L.Ac. at January 26, 2007 6:26 AM
Its pretty common for Liquidambar styraciflua to have corky "wings" on its branches
http://rnrstreamer.lsu.edu/ecosystems/webtour/species/sweetgum/sweetgum.htm
Posted by: crass at January 27, 2007 10:46 AM
I think my liguidambar tree has a fungus/mold disease. It has small black spots on some leaves & there are batches of white that look like they are in the bark. Can you help know what to use to get rid of this & save my tree. Thank you very much.
Posted by: Jane Babraitis at June 12, 2007 6:30 PM
Jane - please post on the forums - there is a link right above "Post a comment".
Posted by: Daniel Mosquin 
at June 13, 2007 8:52 AM
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Around here in East Texas people dislike them for the seed balls that roll underfoot in winter. Despite that Liquidamber is one of my favorite trees. In spring they are one of the last to bloom and thus a harbringer of when spring is "really" here. Summer brings nice green shade. In autumn the color is fantastic and shows quite a bit of variation from yellow to red to burgendy. Plus the combination of seed balls and starry leaves are reminescent of stars and planets. Winter brings those dratted sweet gum balls that the gold finches come all the way down here to feast on. To me, all in all a most perfect tree!