Fruitless Sweet Gum Tree

Features of american sweetgum.

Fruitless sweet gum tree. Fall color can vary from year to year and no fruit is produced. If you want to say goodbye to those balls for good without yearly treatments replace your tree with a fruitless sweetgum tree. The others are found only in asia. All products liquidambar.

From many perspectives the sweetgum is a good tree for the urban landscape. The liquidambar styraciflua growth rate is. Large trees products biofiltration soils availabilities contact. 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.

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. The roundleaf sweetgum is well known as the tidy alternative to fruiting sweetgum trees. Raulston introduced the fruitless sweetgum tree in 1997. The star like leaf has 5 or 7 lobes or points and turns from green in summer to yellow or purple in autumn.

Sweet gum description a sweet gum is a deciduous tree in the witch hazel family that ranges in height from 60 to 100 feet and has a narrow oval canopy. Unlike its parent it doesn t produce or rarely produces those spiny messy gumball fruits. Call 410 755 6600 availabilities. It grows fast in almost any soil has good fall color and has few serious insect or disease problems.

Faqs nursery policies planting guide directions loading information. The star shaped leaves spectacular fall color and tall stature. On its introduction the fruitless sweetgum liquidambar styraciflua rotundiloba seemed like a contender for the title but we now know it has some warts. It also grows slower and has a more open pyramidal shape.

The sweetgum tree is native to the southeastern united states and a member of a genus made up of only six species. The leaves have the same 5 lobes but the tips are rounded rather than pointed.