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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 American sweetgum is widely planted as an ornamental, within its natural range and elsewhere. The hardened sap, or gum resin, excreted from the wounds of the sweetgum, for example, the American sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua), can be chewed on like chewing gum and has been long used for this purpose in the Southern United States. [4]
Nov. 17—Some Mentor residents are finally taking advantage of an ordinance allowing the removal of the American Sweetgum tree from their property. North Palmerston resident Wendy Hudik was ...
The following is a list of diseases of sweetgum (Liquidambar spp.). Bacterial diseases ... Common Names of Diseases from the American Phytopathological Society ...
American Sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua, Altingiaceae).. About 210 eudicot families include trees. [1] [2]Adoxaceae (Moschatel family) . Sambucus, Elderberry; Viburnum, Viburnum
The Altingiaceae (Sweetgum family) consist of a single genus (Liquidambar) with 15 species of trees with unisexual flowers found in Eurasia, but with one species in North and Central America, Liquidambar styraciflua (American sweetgum). Liquidambar is used for its resin and timber, as well being ornamental trees.
USCGC Sweetgum (WAGL-309) was a Mesquite-class buoy tender built in 1943 and operated by the United States Coast Guard. She was later transferred to Panama as SMN Independencia (A-401) . The ship was named after a North American tree of the genus Liquidambar having prickly spherical fruit clusters and fragrant sap.
Can we imagine ourselves back on that awful day in the summer of 2010, in the hot firefight that went on for nine hours? Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come ...