#538 most planted
Liquidambar rotundiloba
Rotundiloba sweetgum · also Liquidambar, Sweet-gum, Sweetgum
Deciduous
1,399
trees mapped
0.01%
of all named trees
2
cities
5.5 in
median trunk (14 cm, 1,397 measured)
11 yr
median age (81% have a planting date)
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Liquidambar rotundiloba is a fruitless cultivar of American sweetgum known for its distinctive rounded leaf lobes and narrowly pyramidal form. It avoids the mess of typical sweetgum 'gum balls' but shares the vigorous root system of its species, requiring ample space to prevent damage to pavement.
Where it grows
Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.
- 1,3550.69%9.9 yr5.6 in
- 440.01%28 yr1.5 in
Traits
- Foliage
- Deciduous
- Mature height
- 40–60 ft
- Canopy spread
- 35–40 ft
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Water needs
- Moderate
- Drought tolerance
- Moderate
- Roots
- Invasive
- Blooms
- Mar, Apr, May
Trunk diameters across every city: median 5.5 in, mean 6.1 in, 90th percentile 11 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.
Other Liquidambar in the catalogue
6 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.
