Picture Notes:  Picture 16 is Liquidambar styraciflua cv. Moraine.

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Distribution:  Connecticut to Florida, and Central America (mountains of Mexico and Guatemala).

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Hardiness Zone:  USDA Zones 5-9       (view USDA zone map)

Size:   60-75 ft. tall (up to 120 ft. tall in the wild) with a spread of 60 of its height.

Form:   Deciduous tree. Pyramidal turning to oval or rounded, with irregular and assymetrical branching.

Bark:   Trunk is grayish-brown, deeply furrowed into narrow, somewhat rounded ridges.

Stem/Bud:   Stems are light to dark reddish-brown or yellowish-brown, aromatic, rounded or somewhat angled, often with prominent corky ridges(but not always).

Leaves:   Leaves are alternate, simple, star-shaped with 5-7 lobes, 4-7 inches long, with axillary tufts on the principal veins beneath. Often confused with maples; but maples have opposite leaf arrangement.

Fall Color:   Fall color is yellowish to purple to reddish. Outstanding, and holding leaves until late in the fall.

Flower:   Flowers are monoecious, not significant.

Fruit:   Fruit is a persistent, spiny, syncarp (multiple fruit) of capsules.

Uses:   Street tree, specimen. Wet sites.

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Notes:    Fruit is a syncarp of capsules. Used in west coast(southern California) and in eastern Pennsylvania where I grew up (street tree). Will grow in wet sites.

Notes 2:   Leafs out late in spring. Shade tree.

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