Liquidambar styraciflua

Liquidambar styraciflua

  • Liquidambar styraciflua
  • Liquidambar styraciflua
  • Liquidambar styraciflua
  • Liquidambar styraciflua
  • Liquidambar styraciflua
  • Liquidambar styraciflua
  • Liquidambar styraciflua
  • Liquidambar styraciflua
  • Liquidambar styraciflua
  • Liquidambar styraciflua
  • Flower name
    Liquidambar styraciflua
  • Scientific name
    Liquidambar styraciflua
  • Aliasアメリカフウ, 紅葉葉楓, American Sweetgum
  • Place of originNorth America in southern
  • Place of floweringPark, Streets, Planting
  • Flowering seasonApril, May

What is Liquidambar styraciflua

Liquidambar styraciflua ,commonly called American Sweetgum, is a deciduous tree of the genus Liquidambar, Department of Altingiaceae native to North America. Flowers bloom in the spring. In one of two Liquidambar is called American Sweetgum. The leaves are palmate to. Shaped leaves of a triangle, so called "Fu" is another one, also referred to as Chinese sweet gum .Liquidambar is similar to Maple. Both deciduous trees, and the leaves in the fall. Is the difference between Liquidambar and Maple. Liquidambar is the Order: Saxifragales , Maple is the Order Sapindus. Liquidambar leaves are alternate, Maple with the opposite. Liquidambar fruit is an aggregate fruit globular, Maple has a propeller with wings.

Common name: Liquidambar styraciflua, scientific name:Liquidambar straciflua, aka: America few, American Sweetgum, origin: Cork quality, living type: deciduous trees, bark: light brown with white gray such as Euonymus lobed, branch: shoots vertically wings, palmate leaves: 5 to 7 cleft, how leaves: alternate, needled, leaf margin: fine serrated with, leaf color: Green → autumn (fall), Monoecious The independent how capitate inflorescences of flowers: male and female separate the flowers: female and male flower head. Pistillate inflorescence to droop in a spherical flowering time: April, fruit types: purple edible aggregate fruit, fruit shape: spherical, fruit color: Green → Brown (autumn), applications: street trees and Park trees


  • Order
    Saxifragales
  • Family
    Altingiaceae
  • Genus
    Liquidambar
  • Species
    L. styraciflua
  • Type of flower
    Radial symmetrical flower
  • Array of flower
    Gross inflorescence
  • Petal shape
    Head flower
  • Leaf type
    Palm shape
  • Edge of the leaf
    Serrated
  • Life typeDeciduous tree
  • Flower colors
  • Colors of the leavesGreen Yellow
  • Fruit colorGreen
  • Height1000.0 ~ 5000.0 cm
  • Diameter of flower ~ cm

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