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	WildWNC.org : Trees : American Elm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		American elm (Ulmus americana), also known as white elm, water elm, soft elm, or Florida elm, is most notable for its susceptibility to the wilt fungus, Ceratocystis ulmi.
		American elm may be perpetuated for generations, even though the average life span of the trees is likely to be reduced.
		American elm is classed as intermediate in shade tolerance among the eastern hardwoods.
	wildwnc.org /trees/Ulmus_americana.html (3413 words)

	WildWNC.org : Trees : Sweetgum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It is this slow, early growth of sweetgum plantations that is of concern to silviculturists because it necessitates expensive cultivation to reduce weed competition and thereby maintain acceptable survival until height growth begins.
		The average 10-year diameter growth for overmature sweetgum in the southern region was reported to be 4.8 cm (1.9 in), and for immature trees of medium to high vigor, 8.9 cm (3.5 in) (16).
		Sweetgum is used principally for lumber, veneer, plywood, slack cooperage, railroad ties, fuel, and pulpwood.
	wildwnc.org /trees/Liquidambar_styraciflua.html (3112 words)

	American Sweetgum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		American Sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua), also known as Redgum, is a deciduous tree in the genus Liquidambar native to warm temperate areas of eastern North America.
		American Sweetgum is a popular ornamental tree, grown for its intense fall colors, but it also has some drawbacks.
		An American Sweetgum will be featured as part of the Memorial Grove at the World Trade Center Memorial, with installation set for fall 2008 and spring 2009 [1].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Sweetgum (952 words)

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		Sweetgums grow in woods and along streambanks and lakes.
		Sweetgums are easy to identify by their leaves.
		Sweetgum is used for timber, furniture, cabinets, plywood, pulp (paper), barrels, and boxes.
	www.fcps.k12.va.us /StratfordLandingES/Ecology/mpages/sweetgum.htm (230 words)

	Sweetgum - Plant of the Week
		Newcomers to sweetgum country usually have tales of sweetgum balls being impossible to compost, chew up with a lawn mower or even effectively rake up in their copious quantity.
		The presence of an American species of sweetgum was first recorded in 1519 when Spanish soldiers observed a ceremony between Cortez and Montezuma in which liquid-amber was mixed with tobacco before smoking.
		The American sweetgum ranges from New Jersey south to Mexico mostly staying in the low country or along streams and rivers.
	www.arhomeandgarden.org /plantoftheweek/articles/sweetgum.htm (617 words)

	Tree Guide at arborday.org
		The American Sweetgum can be expected to grow in the zones shown in color in the arborday.org zone map.
		Sweetgum has become a prized shade tree in parks, campuses and around residences with space for large trees.
		American sweetgum seeds are eaten by eastern goldfinches, purple finches, sparrows, mourning doves, northern bobwhites, and wild turkeys.
	www.arborday.org /trees/treeguide/print.cfm?ID=129 (374 words)

	Red Butte Garden in Salt Lake City, Utah
		The leaves of American Sweetgum are star-shaped, dark glossy green in summer; turning to rich yellow-purple-red tones in the fall.
		Sweetgums are often confused with Maples, however, although the leaf shape is similar, the arrangement of the leaves on the branch is different.
		Native Americans and settlers used the sap as chewing gum and as a treatment for a number of ailments in both humans and domestic animals.
	www.redbuttegarden.org /Gardening/?c=PP_Liquidambar_styraciflua.inc (404 words)

	Excite España - Búsqueda Web - Resultados con: Sweetgum
		Sweetgum attains a height of 50-120 feet and the trunk may have a diameter of 3-4 feet.
		Sweetgum is a handsome tree often planted for shade and for its star-shaped leaves that turn reddish to orange in the fall.
		Sweetgum is a major component of four forest cover types (6): Pin Oak-Sweetgum (Society of American Foresters Type 65), Sweetgum-Willow Oak...
	www.excite.es /search/web/results?q=Sweetgum (212 words)

	UT Gardens' Plant of the Month
		American sweetgums have five-pointed star-shaped leaves that are a beautiful glossy green in the spring and summer.
		Sweetgums prefer soils that are rich and well drained, but they can tolerate a variety of growth habitats.
		Sweetgums, regardless of the cultivar, need lots of space for root development, so this is a great tree for a large lot.
	www.agriculture.utk.edu /news/PlantofMonth/0511POM.htm (448 words)

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		Most people wince when I mention this next plant, Liquidambar styraciflua, American Sweetgum, but it might be one of the best trees for fall color and durability.
		American Sweetgum has leaves that are star shaped with 5 to 7 serrated lobes.
		Its place in the landscape should be in a mulched natural area where you don't have to worry about sending sweetgum projectiles flying when the lawn is mowed.
	www.ces.ncsu.edu /pitt/ag/hort/releases2004/newssept25.html (944 words)

	American Sweetgum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The American Sweetgum is a beautiful tree that grow 45-60 feet tall with a trunk diameter of 4-6 feet.
		The slender branches are wide-spreading and horizontal at the base ascending at an angle.
		The Sweetgum is found in rich wetlands, from Connecticut to Florida and west to Texas.
	bio.bd.psu.edu /plant_web/Hamamelidaceae/American_Sweetgum_02.html (166 words)

	American Sweetgum
		The American Sweetgum tree is found mostly in southern states, but is found anywhere from southern Connecticut to Florida, all along the cost.
		Commercial storax, a fragrant resin used in perfumes and medicines is made from the American Sweetgum.
		Native Americans and early pioneers used it for this same purpose (5).
	www.naz.edu:9000 /~treewalk/styracif/styraciflua.htm (278 words)

	Trees of Reed: American Sweetgum
		This deciduous tree is distinguished by its prickly seed balls and beautiful fall colors.
		The Sweetgum got its name because the cut bark exudes a sweet, fragrant liquid used to make perfumes.
		The Sweetgum leaves are lustrous and bright green above and paler beneath.
	web.reed.edu /trees/TreePages/LIST.html (66 words)

	Aldridge Sawmill > The Forest Lands
		Trees such as the sweetgum, above, and southern red oak provide a brilliant flash of fall color in contrast to the dark evergreen pines in East Texas forests.
		In the understory are a variety of shrubs and vines including American beautyberry, deciduous holly (Ilex decidua), common pawpaw (Asimina triloba), giant cane (Arundinaria gigantea), farkelberry, poison ivy, Virginia creeper, muscadine grape, laurel greenbrier (Smilex laurifolia), and Carolina snailseed.
		Dappled sunlight filters through a mixed forest of loblolly pine and sweetgum trees, a common plant community in moist upland areas of East Texas.
	www.texasbeyondhistory.net /aldridge/forest.html (1634 words)

	Other Hardwoods (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sycamores and Sweetgum are broadleaf trees that are popular in the landscape design, and their rapid growth and white to blotchy bark makes them a pretty tree.
		The Paulownia, has fast growth when they are young, and except for the clusters of purple flowers on the Paulownia, their best use is for borders and fencelines, or areas where they can freely fill in the bare ground.
		The American Sweetgum or Red Gum is found from the southern tip of New York, across the Ohio and Mississippi valleys, and across the southern states from eastern Texas to northern Florida.
	www.cdr3.com /growers/gr00004.htm (826 words)

	Secrest Arboretum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Some of these areas are so wet that they are locally called Crawdad Lands as they are identified by the presence of mounds of soil and holes made by crayfish.
		Pin oak also grows naturally on deep rich soils of bottom lands and around borders of ponds and swamps where it often grows in company with American sweetgum, Liquidambar styraciflua; flgum, Nyssa sylvatica and red maple, Acer rubrum.
		In fact, it grows so often in association with American sweetgum that a forest type or association has been described as Pin Oak-Sweetgum found in the Ohio River Valley and its tributaries.
	www.secrest.osu.edu /plantofthemonth/pinoak.asp (505 words)

	American Sweetgum Liquidambar styraciflua - Plant Palette
		We get plenty of calls from homeowners that are fed up with the nonstop stream of gumballs falling from their sweetgum.
		Treating a sweetgum to prevent fruit formation is very expensive, and must be done annually.
		It also maintains all the desirable characteristics of the American sweetgum, such as pyramidal shape and gorgeous fall color.
	web.extension.uiuc.edu /macon/palette/051127.html (325 words)

	TPWD: GIS Vegetation Types of Texas -- Forest
		Distribution: Principally in the lower flood plains of the Sulphur, Neches, Angelina, Trinity and Sabine Rivers in the Pineywoods.
		Commonly Associated Plants: Cedar elm, American elm, willow oak, southern red oak, white oak, fl willow, cottonwood, red ash, sycamore, pecan, bois d'arc, flowering dogwood, dewberry, coral-berry, dallisgrass, switchgrass, rescuegrass, bermudagrass, eastern gamagrass, Virginia wildrye, Johnsongrass, giant ragweed, yankeeweed, Leavenworth eryngo.
		Commonly Associated Plants: American elm, cedar elm, cottonwood, sycamore, fl willow, live oak, Carolina ash, bald cypress, water oak, hackberry, virgin's bower, yaupon, greenbriar, mustang grape, poison oak, Johnsongrass, Virginia wildrye, Canada wildrye, rescuegrass, frostweed, western ragweed.
	www.tpwd.state.tx.us /publications/pwdpubs/pwd_bn_w7000_0120/forest (558 words)

	Grounds Maintenance : Stanford Points of Interest (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-4.cs.princeton.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		To the west of the library entrance, a row of young sawleaf zelkovas trees (Zelkova serrata) runs along the length of the wall and begins to turn from green to red later in the season.
		Nearby are several American sweetgums (Liquidamber styraciflua), a familiar tree with maple-like leaves and spiky round seed pods.
		A telltale characteristic of this South American native is the thick spines that stud the gray-green trunk.
	grounds.stanford.edu.cob-web.org:8888 /points/fallwalkingtour.html (1318 words)

	Sweetgum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		American Sweetgum leaves with November fall color in South Carolina
		Liquidambar orientalis - Oriental Sweetgum (southwest Turkey, Greece: Rhodes).
		This page was last modified 17:10, 15 October 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sweetgum (357 words)

	Liquidambar (Fruitless American Sweetgum) - styraciflua Rotundiloba\| Details about Liquidambar (Fruitless American ...
		The major drawback of most sweetgums are the prickly seed-balls of which L. s.
		This fruitless form is distinguished by founded lobes, rather than the normal pointed, star-shaped leaves.
		Liquidambar (Fruitless American Sweetgum) - styraciflua Rotundiloba (Woody plants)
	www.carrollgardens.com /trees_Shrubs/detail.asp?PRODUCT_ID=420-10-13052 (107 words)

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		0185-0608-0520-0314: Close-up of American Sweetgum Tree in Fall
		0272-0607-1607-2050: American Moon Moth Caterpillar Feeding on Liquidambar Leaf
	www.acclaimimages.com /_gallery/_print_terms/sweetgum.html (171 words)

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		The American Sweetgum, known in its Latin name to be Liquidambar styraciflua, is normally found around Eastern United States, from Southwestern Connecticut to Florida.
	www.isearchplants.com /name/american_sweetgum/page1.html (63 words)

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