Altingiaceae
Oriental sweetgum
Liquidambar orientalis
- Family
- Altingiaceae
- Genus
- Liquidambar
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Common names
By language (13)
- Arabic
- عنبر دماع شرقي, الميعة
- Chinese
- 苏合香, 蘇合香樹, 合香
- Czech
- Ambroň východní
- Dutch
- Oosterse amberboom
- English
- Oriental sweetgum
- Finnish
- Idänambrapuu
- Hebrew
- ליקווידמבר מזרחי
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Orientalsk ambratre
- Persian
- شیرینژد خاوری
- Polish
- Ambrowiec wschodni
- Swedish
- Ambraträd
- Turkish
- Anadolu sığla ağacı, Sığla
- Vietnamese
- Sâu đông
Synonyms
- Liquidambar imberbis Aiton
- Liquidambar orientalis subsp. orientalis
- Liquidambar orientalis var. integriloba Fiori
Photos
LeavesPhoto: Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Zeynel Cebeci, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Thibaud Aronson, CC BY-SA 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Kjf webmaster, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Zeynep Serra Aydoğmuş, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Bernard Ducarme, CC0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Kjf webmaster, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: NaneLimbo, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Zeynel Cebeci, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Ahmet Tayfun BEDEL, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: John Kenrick Gibson, CC0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Zeynel Cebeci, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
More in Liquidambar
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- RasamalaLiquidambar excelsaAltingiaceae
- Liquidambar caudataAltingiaceae
- Liquidambar chingiiAltingiaceae
- Liquidambar siamensisAltingiaceae
- Liquidambar cambodianaAltingiaceae
- Liquidambar chinensisAltingiaceae
- Liquidambar gracilipesAltingiaceae
- Liquidambar multinervisAltingiaceae
- Liquidambar obovataAltingiaceae
Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.