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LIQUIDAMBAR styraciflua
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:: Hamamelidaceae :: LIQUIBAMBAR :: styraciflua

Type of products available: 1/1P1L

Main asset

The Liquidambar are rightly considered as one of the most colored high trees in autumn, with varying shades of yellow to red on the same tree, very changeable. Their growth is rapid.

Remarks

Autumn colors are more beautiful in drained acidic soil, and with early frosts. The plants proposed here are from seedling.

Tree indigenous in North America, with pyramidal shape becoming round with age. The root system is deep, giving the tree good resistance to drought. The leaves are palmated, dark green in summer, and take in autumn beautiful colours yellow, orange to bright red. Branches develop corky coasts.

Uses: Alignments, specimen

Global caracteristics:

Type of foliage: deciduous
Habit: conical
Height: 25 m x 10 m (80 ft x 30 ft)
Growth: fast
Flowering period: March-April
Époque de fructification : autumn

Shape and colours:

Couleur du bois : corky gray
Foliage shape: palmated
Foliage colour: dark green
Foliage colour in autumn: orange to red
Flowers shape: small clusters
Flowers colour: cream green
Forme des fruits : globular
Couleur des fruits : grey

Plantation:

Soil type: All, preferably non-calcareous
Exposure: sun, part-shade
Hardiness: - 25 °C (-13 °F - USDA zone 5b)