
Liquidambar styraciflua | Sweetgum Tree | Huge Florida Native Cornerstone Tree
SweetgumAltingiaceaePlant Specifics Seed grown small trees in 1 gallon pots. This tree gets HUGE! Plan accordingly! Great for restoration. Small trees establish better than planting a huge one. Shipped bare root and wrapped carefully. Larval host plant for luna (Actias luna) moths.Size: to 80 ft ft tall by to 30 ft ft wide Life Span: Long-lived perennialFruit Color: BrownPhenology: Deciduous. Blooms (inconspicuous) in spring. Fruit ripens in fall. Life span: 75+ years.Habitats: Dry-moist sites. River bottoms, upland hardwood forests, roadsides.LandscapingRecommended Uses: Shade tree. This is a clone former, so it can also be used to provide screening or for an "island" of habitat for wildlife Light: Full Sun, Part Shade Salt Water Flooding Tolerance: Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.Salt Spray/ Salty Soil Tolerance: Some tolerance to salty wind but not direct salt spray.Soil or other substrate: Clay, Loam, SandSoil pH: