sweetgums
Liquidambar
Liquidambar, commonly called sweetgum (sweet gum in the UK), gum, redgum, satin-walnut, or American storax, is the only genus in the flowering plant family Altingiaceae with 15 species. They were formerly often treated in Hamamelidaceae.
15 branches of this genus, most-observed first
American sweetgum
speciesLiquidambar styraciflua
Chinese Sweetgum
speciesLiquidambar formosana
Oriental Sweetgum
speciesLiquidambar orientalis
Mountain Litchi
speciesLiquidambar chinensis
Chang’s sweet gum
speciesLiquidambar acalycina
Liquidambar excelsa
speciesLiquidambar excelsa
Liquidambar gracilipes
speciesLiquidambar gracilipes
Liquidambar chingii
speciesLiquidambar chingii
Liquidambar obovata
speciesLiquidambar obovata
Liquidambar multinervis
speciesLiquidambar multinervis
Liquidambar caudata
speciesLiquidambar caudata
Liquidambar yunnanensis
speciesLiquidambar yunnanensis
sdey
speciesLiquidambar cambodiana
Liquidambar siamensis
speciesLiquidambar siamensis
Liquidambar poilanei
speciesLiquidambar poilanei
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Compendium of Materia Medica
李時珍 · 1596 · p.113
Illustrated Herbal Primer
Chen Jiamo (陳嘉謨) · 1628 · p.209
Treasury of Medical Matters of New Spain
Francisco Hernández · 1651 · p.97
Treasury of Medical Matters of New Spain
Francisco Hernández · 1651 · p.76
Illustrated Compendium of Materia Medica (Vol. 32)
吳其濬 · 1848 · p.7
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Liquidambar in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 49661.