Liquidambar acalycina
‘Burgundy™’ Sweetgum
Form: Pyramidal to oblong round.
Size: 50 to 65 feet tall and a spread of two-thirds of its height.
Zone: 5 to 9.
Leaves: Deciduous. Leaves emerge as wine-red and turn to a lime-green with age.
Wine-red to deep purple in the fall.
Bark: Grayish-brown and deeply furrowed.
Fruit: Almost Seedless. Syncarp is 1 to 1 1/2 inches in diameter.
Growth Rate: Medium to fast.
Description: This selection was named for its beautiful new growth. New leaves are burgundy to wine-red and transform into a medium to dark green. A slender tree that makes this tree great for small spaces. Additionally, this Sweetgum is seedless, no gumballs .
Liquidambar styraciflua
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'Cherokee™' Sweetgum
Form: Pyramidal to oblong round.
Size: 50 to 65 feet tall and a spread of two-thirds of its height.
Zone: 5 to 9.
Leaves: Deciduous. Glossy, deep green changing to deep red and purple in the fall.
Bark: Grayish-brown and deeply furrowed.
Fruit: Almost seedless. Syncarp is 1 to 1 1/2 inches in diameter.
Growth Rate: Medium to fast.
Description: Virtually seedless (gumballs). 'Cherokee' is representative of all the outstanding qualities of Sweetgum species; highly adaptable to most all conditions, brilliant and very consistent fall coloration and a pyramidal to rounded silhouette.
Liquidambar styraciflua
'Slender Silhouette' Sweetgum
Form: Columnar.
Size: 50 feet tall and 8 to 10 feet wide.
Zone: 6 to 9.
Leaves: Deciduous. Deep, dark green changing into shades of yellow and orange in the fall.
Bark: Heavily furrowed gray-brown.
Fruit: Syncarp.
Growth Rate: Moderate.
Description: An extremely narrow columnar tree. Used as mass plantings for effect. A durable tree that holds its summer foliage well into late fall.