Botanical Name: Liquidambar orientalis
Common Name: Oriental sweet gum
Type of Plant: dicot: tree
 
Habit of Growth:
Overall Shape Upright, pyramidal tree, becoming rounded with age; very briefly deciduous in Southern California, juvenile trees are evergreen
Height to 30'
Spread to 15'
Growth Rate moderate
 
Environment:
Exposure outdoors full sun preferred
Soil prefers a neutral to acidic soil with good drainage
Hardiness Hardy; Zones 5-9, 14-24
 
Morphology:
Leaves Palmately lobed leaves to 4" across; normally 5-lobed with smaller lobes developing along primary ones gives a lacy effect
Flowers male flowers in terminal racemes or panicles; female flowers in globose heads
Fruit woody, spiny heads consisting of small capsules; persistent on tree
 
Propagation:
seed
 
Usage:
best used as grove or screen specimen in mass plantings; sometimes used as a street or lawn tree. This tree is not as aggressive as L. styraciflua in rooting and branch growth; good fall color in cold climates
 
Landscape Care:
Watering needs frequent watering, but does best where soils drain well; tolerates lawn watering well
Fertilizing correct chlorosis where soils are alkaline
Pruning shape lightly or head up for clearance; best if sparingly pruned
Pests/Diseases none major
Special Conditions/Other resistant to oak root fungus
 
Origin: Turkey
Family: Hamamelidaceae

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