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LIQUIDAMBER STYRACIFLUA

SKU: LIST

Price: $3.95

Sweetgum has been widely planted as an ornamental, especially outside of its natural range, due to its brilliant fall foliage (usually red). Its fast growth and wide tolerance make it a good choice as a street tree, shade tree, and as a windbreak tree. Sweetgum makes a beautiful specimen tree especially with a green lawn playing background to its beautiful fall color. Sweetgum is a large deciduous hardwood tree that can grow to height over 100' tall. When grown in the open, sweetgum forms beautifully symmetric, cone shaped crown that becomes more rounded as the tree reaches maturity. This tree is readily identified by its star shaped leaves that are 4-7" in diameter. Sweetgum is most commonly found growing on bottomland sites, but it tolerates a wide variety of conditions. Full sun to filtered shade. Best on moist, well drained sites. But will succeed on drier spots and is even rather drought resistant.