Sweet Gum Tree Bark

Commonly called sweetgum sweet gum in the uk gum redgum satin walnut or a eucalyptus tree with unique peeling bark layers with whitish under layer and red shedding surface in western australia.

Sweet gum tree bark. In scientific nomenclature the sweet gum tree is called liquidambar styraciflua. Younger trees on the other hand tend to have smoother bark and occasionally displace cork like projections as shown in the picture. The star anise pod is about 7 shikimic acid the pine needles 3 and the sweet gum 1 7 to 3. This name was derived from the tree s innate property of secreting a resin like substance.

Interestingly sweet gum tea was an herbal treatment for the flu and the cherokee made a tea out of the bark. Sweet gum i think peeling bark asked june 14 2016 12 32 pm edt the bark is peeling off the trunk of what i believe to be a sweet gum tree it came with the house in our front yard. The american sweet gum tree is also called liquidambar. Sweetgum tree pictures gallery.

It is considered a hardwood species with wood weighing 52 pounds per cubic. The tree ranges between 80 to 150 feet in height. Full size each sweetgum tree picture you like just click on the sweetgum image to get the sweetgum photo to enlarge. Sweet gum bark and leaves have some but the highest concentration is in the infertile seeds.

It grows to 75 feet in height and prefers full sun in zones 5 to 9 which includes all but the very northern and southern parts of the united states. Close up of bark texture on a sweet gum tree a large deciduous tree. It thrives well in both acidic soil and alkaline soil and ponds and streams are its predominant areas. Sweetgum makes a nice conical park campus or residential shade tree for large properties when it is young developing a more oval or rounded canopy as it grows older as several branches become dominant and grow in diameter.

There are tiny black bugs on it and the leaves look like they ve got speckles on them. The bark becomes deeply ridged at about 25 years old. Enjoy these wonderful pictures of sweetgum trees. American sweetgum liquidambar styraciflua also known as american storax hazel pine bilsted redgum satin walnut star leaved gum alligatorwood or simply sweetgum is a deciduous tree in the genus liquidambar native to warm temperate areas of eastern north america and tropical montane regions of mexico and central america.

The sweet gum tree attracts wildlife including blue jays cardinals mourning doves squirrels chipmunks and luna moths. The bark of the american sweetgum is a gray brown color and becomes more and more ridged fissured with increasing age. Ridges tend to form definitively for trees at about 25 years old.