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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.
Fossil leaf of Liquidambar from Pliocene of Italy This genus is known in the fossil record from the Cretaceous to the Quaternary (age range: 99.7 to 0.781 million years ago). [ 5 ] The genus was much more widespread in the Tertiary , but has disappeared from Europe due to extensive glaciation in the north and the east–west oriented Alps and ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
[10]: 215 Turkish sweetgum (Liquidambar orientalis) was formerly widespread, but is now restricted to Southwest Anatolia. [13] From sources such as Theophrastus we know that Ancient Mediterranean civilisations used wood as a fuel in houses, bakeries, bathhouses, and for metalwork. Cedar was used for temples, such as at Ephesus and Artemis.
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 ...
Leptorhynchos orientalis, an annual or perennial herb species in the genus Leptorhynchos endemic to Australia; Limaria orientalis, the file shell, a bivalve mollusc species; Liquidambar orientalis, the Oriental sweetgum or Turkish sweetgum, a deciduous tree species native to the eastern Mediterranean region