{"id":9240,"date":"2015-11-03T08:48:18","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T13:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=9240"},"modified":"2015-11-06T09:30:29","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T14:30:29","slug":"liquidambar-styraciflua-american-sweetgum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=9240","title":{"rendered":"<em>Liquidambar styraciflua<\/em> (American Sweetgum)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9242\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/img_20151103_114468.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9242\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/img_20151103_114468-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Liquidambar styraciflua (American Sweetgum)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9242\" data-wp-pid=\"9242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/img_20151103_114468-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/img_20151103_114468-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/img_20151103_114468-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/img_20151103_114468-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/img_20151103_114468-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/img_20151103_114468.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Liquidambar styraciflua<\/em> (American Sweetgum)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I had my annual physical this morning so took a slightly different route coming in. I also had a little extra time, so I stopped to take some pictures of fall color. These are the leaves of a sweetgum tree, or maybe more properly an American sweetgum (<em>Liquidambar styraciflua<\/em>) to differentiate it from the Chang&#8217;s, Chinese, and Turkish Sweetgums, which are <em>L. acalycina<\/em>, <em>formosana<\/em>, and <em>orientalis<\/em>, respectively. If you want a tree with great fall color, this would be a good choice. You might want to look for a variety that doesn&#8217;t bear fruit, which can be an annoyance in a yard. There is also a variety called &#x2018;Rotundiloba&#x2019; which has rounded lobes in addition to being fruitless. But the species is worthy in itself, especially if planted in a large yard away from where you want to walk barefoot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had my annual physical this morning so took a slightly different route coming in. I also had a little extra time, so I stopped to take some pictures of fall color. These are the leaves of a sweetgum tree, or maybe more properly an American sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua) to differentiate it from the Chang&#8217;s, &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=9240\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9240"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9243,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9240\/revisions\/9243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}