LIQUIDAMBAR

Liquidambar

Liquidambar, commonly called sweetgum, gum, redgum, satin-walnut, or American storax, is a genus of five species of flowering plants in the family Altingiaceae, though formerly often treated in the Hamamelidaceae. They are all large, deciduous trees, tall, with palmately 3- to 7-lobed leaves arranged spirally on the stems and length of, having a pleasant aroma when crushed. Mature bark is grayish and vertically grooved. The flowers are small, produced in a dense globular inflorescence diameter, pendulous on a stem. The fruit is a woody multiple capsule in diameter, ...

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liquidambar

Noun

  1. A resinous gum that exudes from the bark of the tree Liquidambar styraciflua


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