species
Liquidambar styraciflua
Sweet gum
Scale drawing from this record, beside a 1.7 m figure.
Liquidambar styraciflua belongs to the family Altingiaceae, also known as Sweet gum, introduced to the UK. It reaches 20 m tall and 10 m across in about 10 years. It grows in full sun, on loam or clay soil, where the ground is acid or neutral and in moist or well drained conditions, and suits average positions. Its RHS hardiness rating is H6 (hardy, very cold winter): −20 to −15°C.
Assembled from the attributes recorded below.
What this plant needs
- Size at maturity
- 20 m tall × 10 m across, after about 10 years
- Hardiness
- H6 (RHS)
- Aspect
- Full sun
- Soil
- Loam, Clay
- Acidity
- Acid, Neutral
- Moisture
- Moist, Well drained
- Exposure
- Average
- In the UK
- Introduced
Plan a bed with Liquidambar styraciflua
Bloomprint draws your garden to scale and checks what will actually grow there. Your garden opens with this plant already on the plan.
Start a plan with Liquidambar styraciflua