Liquidambar styraciflua 'Rotundiloba'
Object Details
- Description
- In addition to lacking the species’ notable “gum ball,” this sweetgum cultivar has rounded leaf tips.
- Hardiness
- -20 -40 F
- Attracts
- Birds with shelter
- Bloom Time
- April to May
- Provenance
- From a cultivated plant not of known wild origin
- Range
- Cultivated
- Topic
- Trees
- Living Collections
- See more items in
- Smithsonian Gardens Tree Collection
- On Display
- National Museum of Natural History
- Data Source
- Smithsonian Gardens
- Accession Number
- 2012-1398A
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Common Name
- Roundleaf Sweetgum
- 'Rotundiloba' Sweetgum
- Group
- [vascular plants]
- Class
- Equisetopsida
- Subclass
- Magnoliidae
- Superorder
- Saxifraganae
- Order
- Saxifragales
- Family
- Altingiaceae
- Genus
- Liquidambar
- Species
- styraciflua
- Life Form
- Deciduous tree
- Average Height
- 60-75'
- Bark Characteristics
- Gray-brown and deeply furrowed.
- Bloom Characteristics
- Flowers appear in small clusters in the spring.
- Fall Color
- Yellow, dark red
- Foliage Characteristics
- Alternate, palmate, leaves with entire margins. Have 5-7 rounded lobes. 4-8" long.
- Fruit Characteristics
- Does not fruit.
- Structure
- Oval, pyramid
- Record ID
- ofeo-sg_2012-1398A
