Liquidambar styraciflua (sweetgum)
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Notes
Key Characteristics
- Leaves are alternate and simple, star shaped with 5-7 sharp serrate lobes
- This tree grows excurrently with a long conical crown
- Twigs have corky ridges or wings, and are aromatic, with angled or star shaped pith
- These trees are generally found planted or near river floodplains
- Buds are large, shiny, red or green, and on short shoots
- Fruit are little star - or microbe - shaped multiples or capsules densely arranged, could also look like a ball or birds beaks or a ball of bad velcro hooks
Sourced from a field lab in Fall 2011
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From Steve Baskauf at Bioimages