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Liquidambar, commonly called sweetgum [2] (star gum in the UK), [3] gum, [2] redgum, [2] satin-walnut, [2] styrax or American storax, [2] is the only genus in the flowering plant family Altingiaceae and has 15 species. [1] They were formerly often treated as a part of the Hamamelidaceae. They are native to southeast and east Asia, the eastern ...
American sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua), also known as American storax, [3] hazel pine, [4] bilsted, [5] redgum, [3] satin-walnut, [3] star-leaved gum, [5] alligatorwood, [3] gumball tree, [6] or simply sweetgum, [3] [7] is a deciduous tree in the genus Liquidambar native to warm temperate areas of eastern North America and tropical montane regions of Mexico and Central America.
The green ball-shaped fruits appear in early summer and remain on the tree until fall. ... revealing 1 to 4 edible nuts inside. Dean Schoeppner . Sweet Gum. Sweet gum is a native shade tree that ...
The flowers are insignificant, yellow/green in colour, and are followed by small gum-balls that persist on the tree until winter. The wood exudes a sweet-smelling resin when pierced, giving the tree its common name. [4]
These balls were used as an antiseptic and to deliver medication. However, the first documented mention of laddu as a sweet is in the 11th-century Western Indian cookbook Lokopakara . It gives a recipe for making laddus with shavige (rice vermicelli), ghee , and sugar syrup, which were formed into balls and fried in ghee .
"The gum helps dislodge and loosen the food that was packed into the back molars during the meal. The chewing process reduces cavities by clearing out the grooves of the back teeth.”
The fruits ripen in November to December, and the seeds are wind dispersed. The tree is very attractive and especially valued for its colourful autumn leaves. Oriental sweet gum trees favour an elevation of between 0–400 m (0–1,312 ft), a mean annual rainfall of 1,000–1,200 mm (39–47 in) and a mean annual temperature of 18 °C (64 °F).
Fewer than 20 years later, in 1907, Adams Sons and Company upstaged the original gum machine with a machine that dispensed balls of gum, or, what we call them, gumballs.