Fruitless Sweet Gum Tree

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Fruitless sweet gum tree. The roundleaf sweetgum is well known as the tidy alternative to fruiting sweetgum trees. Faqs nursery policies planting guide directions loading information. It grows fast in almost any soil has good fall color and has few serious insect or disease problems. The liquidambar styraciflua growth rate is.

Fruitless sweetgum tree is is more pyramidal than the other varieties. Sweetgum is a pioneer species often found after an area has been logged or clearcut and one of the most common tree species in the eastern united states. On its introduction the fruitless sweetgum liquidambar styraciflua rotundiloba seemed like a contender for the title but we now know it has some warts. All products liquidambar.

Call 410 755 6600 availabilities. The star shaped leaves spectacular fall color and tall stature. Fall color can vary from year to year and no fruit is produced. The sweetgum tree is native to the southeastern united states and a member of a genus made up of only six species.

It brings all the same charm that other sweetgum trees do. Liquidambar styraciflua rotundiloba is a sterile non fruiting culitivar of sweetgum that does not produce the famous spiky seed pods commonly called gumballs other cultivars do have the pods which drop from the tree after the leaves fall in mid to late autumn and into winter. If you want to say goodbye to those balls for good without yearly treatments replace your tree with a fruitless sweetgum tree. Raulston introduced the fruitless sweetgum tree in 1997.

The others are found only in asia. It also grows slower and has a more open pyramidal shape. Features of american sweetgum. The star like leaf has 5 or 7 lobes or points and turns from green in summer to yellow or purple in autumn.

Unlike its parent it doesn t produce or rarely produces those spiny messy gumball fruits. The leaves have the same 5 lobes but the tips are rounded rather than pointed.