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Liquidambar orientalis, commonly known as oriental sweetgum or Turkish sweetgum, [3] is a deciduous tree in the genus Liquidambar, native to the eastern Mediterranean region, that occurs as pure stands mainly in the floodplains of southwestern Turkey and on the Greek island of Rhodes.
Liquidambar, commonly called ... is the only genus in the flowering plant family Altingiaceae and has 15 species. [1] ... Liquidambar orientalis: Oriental sweetgum:
The storax of the ancients was probably extracted from a different tree, seemingly from the Liquidambar orientalis which grows wild in northern Syria, and may even have been grown in Israel; from it is extracted an aromatic sap with healing qualities called storax liquidis.
The oriental sweetgum (Liquidambar orientalis) is endemic to a limited area of southwestern Turkey and the island of Rhodes. [6] The largest remaining stands are near Köyceğiz. [3] Bozpırnal oak (Quercus aucheri) is another endemic tree, native to the islands of Rhodes and Kos and adjacent southwestern coastal Turkey. It has sweet, edible ...
EUFORGEN Technical Guidelines for genetic conservation and use for oriental sweetgum (Liquidambar orientalis). International Plant Genetic Resources Institute, Rome. Arsalan, M. B., & Şahin, H. T., 2016. Unutulan Bir Orman Ürünü Kaynağı: Anadolu Sığla Ağaci (Liquidambar orientalis Miller). Journal of Bartın Faculty of Forestry, 18(1 ...
The spicebush (Lindera benzoin) is a different plant, in the family Lauraceae. Styrax trees grow to 2–14 m tall, and have alternate, deciduous or evergreen simple ovate leaves 1–18 cm long and 2–10 cm broad. The flowers are pendulous, with a white 5–10-lobed corolla, produced 3–30 together on open or dense panicles 5–25 cm long.
Liquidambar orientalis; S. Liquidambar styraciflua; Storax balsam This page was last edited on 25 October 2017, at 03:44 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
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.