sweetgum "LANE ROBERTS"
Liquidambar styraciflua
"LANE ROBERTS"
sweetgum
USUAL HEIGHT and WIDTH
8-15m
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LEAVES
deciduous broadleaf |
SIZE/TYPE
medium-sized tree |
COLOUR OF LEAVES
green
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BLOOMING TIME
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LOCATION
full sun to shade |
FLOWERS
insignificant or non-blooming |
USDA zone (lowest)
5 (down to -29°C)
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COLOUR OF FLOWERS
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WINTER PROTECTION
for zone 5+6
 for zone 7
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Belongs to categories
Deciduous broadleaf
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GLOSSARY
- STANDARD QUALITY - Plants of this group are 1st class quality with number of branches and overall density adequate to their size and age, considering they were container grown.
- DE LUXE QUALITY - This label guarantees a luxurious quality of manually selected plants that, compared to their height and age, are exceptionally dense and beautiful.
- EXTRA - These plants are usually mature and bigger specimens with exceptional overall appearance.
- STANDARD (as described in the plant form) means a tree with a trunk of 190-210 cm and a crown at the top, unless specified differently. The commercial size for trees is their girth measured in the height of 1m from ground.
- SHRUB - a woody plant with branches growing bushy from the ground level.
- HALF-STANDARD or MINI-STANDARD - a small tree with shorter trunk, its size is usually specified.
- FEATHERED - These are trees with branches growing already from the base of the trunk and up along the stem.
- GRASSES and PERENNIALS - Sizes given usually read the diameter of the pot or the clump, as specified.
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DESCRIPTION
“Lane Roberts” is a large-leaved variety of sweetgum. The leaves are mid- to deep green, deeply lobed and look like maple leaves but are not opposite. It is popular for its autumn colours with prevailing red, deep purple, and almost blackish red. The fruits are small, medium-hard spiny spheres. In gardens with limited space for roots it seldom grows taller than 10m, however, in parks and in southern countries you may encounter much taller and obviously very old specimens reaching over 20m. It likes any fertile to mid-fertile soil, preferably acidic and moist.
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