"Worplesdon" Sweet Gum. A pyramidal shade tree, foliage resembles maple but is more deeply lobed. In fall, it turns red, purple and yellow in the fall.

As mentioned earlier, there is no need to prune a sweetgum tree heavily. Indeed, it is recommended to never remove more than 25% of live wood in the canopy in a single season.

American sweetgum trees, or Liquidambar styraciflua, are sometimes called redgum largely because of the distinct color of this older heartwood and its star-shaped leaves in the fall. Also called ...

The tree house, which was built and owned by The Simpsons producer Rick Polizzi, was a staple of the Sherman Oaks neighborhood for 24 years. The structure was three stories tall and inspired by ...

It’s just the best,” Todd Cournoyer, head of grounds, said. The Class of 2028 tree is a sweetgum rotundiloba, chosen because of its unique rounded leaves and vibrant colors. The sweetgum tree will be ...

The tree grew from a seed that was brought to the moon during the Apollo 14 Mission in 1971. It’s called the Bicentennial Moon Tree because it was planted in honor of the U.S. Bicentennial.

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) — The University of Arizona will celebrate the planting of the Artemis I Moon Tree, a sweetgum tree that symbolizes a significant milestone in lunar exploration.

Seeds of a variety of trees, including the sweetgum planted at the intermediate school, flew around the moon as part of NASA’s Artemis I program in 2022, according to the space agency's website.

Sweetgum has a straight grayish-brown single trunk with deeply furrowed narrow ridges. Sweetgum gets its name from aromatic gum that oozes from wounds to the tree. Historically, this gum has been ...

Erica Heide, senior park ranger for the City of Pittsburgh, said the Moon Tree is around 3-4 feet tall right now, but at maturity sweetgum trees can reach between 60-75 feet tall and 40-75 feet wide.

Density. Sweetgum has a density of approximately 33 pounds per cubic foot. Sweetgum KD lumber weighs about 3 pounds per board foot at 7 percent MC. Drying. The wood has interlocked grain and it warps.

These forests were composed mainly of cherrybark oak and sweetgum trees. Both species are common in mixed stands, but they have different crown forms and growth rates.