Altingiaceae
American sweetgum
Liquidambar styraciflua
- Family
- Altingiaceae
- Genus
- Liquidambar
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Common names
By language (28)
- Arabic
- عنبر دماع أمريكي
- Armenian
- Լիքվիդամբար խեժատու
- arz
- ميعه
- Asturian
- Liquidámbar
- Azerbaijani
- Qatranlı likvidambar
- Basque
- Likidanbar
- Catalan
- Liquidàmbar Americà, Arbre d'ambar
- Chinese
- 北美枫香树, 北美楓香樹, 北美枫香
- Croatian
- Američki likvidambar
- Czech
- Ambroň západní, Ambroň styraxová
- Danish
- Virginsk Ambratræ, Almindelig Ambratræ, Almindeligt Ambratræ
- Dutch
- Amerikaanse amberboom, Amberboom, Storaxboom
- English
- American sweetgum, Sweetgum, Sweet gum, Alligatorwood, American storax, Bilsted, Hazel pine, Redgum
- Finnish
- Lännenambrapuu
- French
- Copalme d'amérique
- German
- Amerikanischer Amberbaum, Seesternbaum
- Hebrew
- ליקוידמבר ליבני
- Hungarian
- Amerikai ámbrafa
- Italian
- Storace americano
- Japanese
- モミジバフウ, アメリカフウ, アメリカンレッドガム
- Macedonian
- Американски ликвидамбар
- nah
- Ocotzocuahuitl
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Ambratre
- Persian
- شیرینژد آمریکایی
- Polish
- Ambrowiec balsamiczny, Ambrowiec amerykański
- Russian
- Ликвидамбар смолоносный, Амбровое дерево, Ликвидамбр смолоносный
- Serbian
- Амерички ликвидамбар
- Spanish
- Árbol del Ámbar
Synonyms
- Liquidambar barbata Stokes
- Liquidambar gummifera Salisb.
- Liquidambar macrophylla Oerst.
- Liquidambar styraciflua f. pendula Rehder
- Liquidambar styraciflua f. rotundiloba Rehder
- Liquidambar styraciflua var. macrophylla Nied.
- Liquidambar styraciflua var. mexicana Oerst.
- Liquidambar tuberculata Silba
Flowers
- In flower
- March to May (from 187 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)
- Flower colour
- green (USDA PLANTS Database)
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Tree
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Lower 48 states: native
Photos
FlowerPhoto: mfeaver, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Kristi Zoebelein, CC0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Nonbinary-Naturalist, CC0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Nonbinary-Naturalist, CC0, from iNaturalist 
FruitPhoto: Sandy Wolkenberg, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
LeavesPhoto: Sandy Wolkenberg, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Dominicus Johannes Bergsma, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Dominicus Johannes Bergsma, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Sandy Wolkenberg, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Sandy Wolkenberg, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Steve Taylor, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist
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- Liquidambar siamensisAltingiaceae
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- Liquidambar multinervisAltingiaceae
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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.