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Liquidambar styraciflua L. 1753

Altingiaceae (APG IV)
American sweetgum, American storax, redgum
Taxon concept: The Plant List (2014), version 1.1
Distribution: USA: northeast, northeast-central, southern States of the Great Plains, southeast incl. Florida; Mexico, Guatemala

Liquidambar styraciflua L. - Accepted: Liquidambar styraciflua L. bei Zander 2008; Familie: Hamamelidaceae (Zander 2008)
Liquidambar styraciflua L. - Accepted: Liquidambar styraciflua L. bei The Plant List (2010); Familie: Altingiaceae (APG III)
Liquidambar styraciflua L. - Accepted: Liquidambar styraciflua L. bei The Plant List (2014), version 1.1; Familie: Altingiaceae (APG III)

Flowers
monoecious
Life form
tree
Leaves
long-petiolate, palmately lobed, with serrate (saw-toothed) margin
Foliage persistence
deciduous
Fruits
ball-shaped capsule fruit
Fruit ecology
wind-dispersed (anemochorous)
Soil conditions
preferentially on moist, alluvial clay and loamy soils
Natural occurrence (habitat)
river bottoms and alluvial forests
Vegetation typ and synecology (plant community)
mixed mesophytic forests; in communities with oaks, maples and hickories
Constraints according radiation (light)
shade intolerant
Usage
wood is used for making furniture, crates, baskets, interior trim, millwork, railway ties, excelsior, and pulpwood; also used for fuel
Bark
brown bark, deeply furrowed with narrow scaly plates or ridges

Coladonato, M. (1992): Liquidambar styraciflua. In: Fire Effects Information System, [Online]. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory (Producer). See: https://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/tree/liqsty/all.html;

Erhardt, W., Götz, E., Bödeker, N. & Seybold, S. (2008): Der große Zander. Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen. Band 2. Arten und Sorten. Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart (Hohenheim), 18. Aufl., 2103 S.;

The International Plant Names Index (2009). Published on the Internet http://www.ipni.org; Courtesy to IPNI, 2009. Exported from IPNI at date: 2009-09-22 20:17:51;





Last update:
Taxonomic update: Database method on: 21.2.2020
Update of the description: Matthias Krause; latest by: Matthias Krause on: 27.3.2019

In the list below you will find the geographic coordinates of many woody plants in the garden. In these cases the points are marked in the map.
If no coordinates are listed, the coordinate of the point in the map marks the middle coordinate of the section.

Sex Standort Accession number Planting year Donation IPEN Lat. Long.
Klimabäume Hohenheim West KLB-361-20498 XX-0-HOH-KLB-361-20498 0 0
Klimabäume Hohenheim West KLB-362-20498 XX-0-HOH-KLB-362-20498 0 0
Klimabäume Hohenheim West KLB-363-20498 XX-0-HOH-KLB-363-20498 0 0
Klimabäume Hohenheim West KLB-364-20498 XX-0-HOH-KLB-364-20498 0 0
Klimabäume Hohenheim West KLB-365-20498 XX-0-HOH-KLB-365-20498 0 0
Parzelle B EG-B-016-19011 2010 + XX-0-HOH-EG-B-016-19011 48,7107418486 9,2077738749
Parzelle B EG-B-132-19012 2008 + XX-0-HOH-EG-B-132-19012 48,7106645122 9,2078243621
Parzelle O EG-O-086-24961 XX-0-HOH-EG-O-086-24961 0 0
Parzelle U LG-U-092-16496 2000 + XX-0-HOH-LG-U-092-16496 48,707089 9,213543
Parzelle U LG-U-091-20497 2000 + XX-0-HOH-LG-U-091-20497 48,707028 9,213693
Parzelle D SP-DB-029-3153 1866 XX-0-HOH-SP-DB-029-3153 48,7111509099 9,2131196901
Parzelle E SP-EB-060-9986 2017 XX-0-HOH-SP-EB-060-9986 48,7108431226 9,2121801656
Parzelle G SP-GB-046-10024 2015 + XX-0-HOH-SP-GB-046-10024 48,710838173 9,213705223
Parzelle G SP-GB-028-15838 2016 XX-0-HOH-SP-GB-028-15838 48,7107952191 9,21341241