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Roundleaf sweetgum, or Liquidambar styraciflua rotundiloba, has star-shaped leaves with three to five lobes that have rounded tips. This variant, also known as fruitless sweetgum or thornless ...
This specimen is known as a Fruitless Sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua 'Rotundiloba' lik-wid-AM-bar sti-ra-se-FLO-ah), a selection found in the forests of North Carolina without the seed capsules ...
There is a Sweetgum tree that doesn't drop seed balls; its leaves have rounded tips and it's called 'Rotundiloba'. You'll often see this cultivar planted in parking lots and other places that don ...
so it's smart not to plant a Sweetgum near where you go barefoot in summer. There is a cultivar called 'Rotundiloba' with round-tipped leaves that supposed to NOT produce seedballs, but it turns ...
A more permanent solution, however, is to replace your existing trees with a fruitless sweetgum cultivar called "Rotundiloba." Fruitless or roundleaf sweetgum has leaves with rounded lobes and a ...
To avoid sap flowing from fresh cuts, prune in summer. * Rotundiloba sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua "Rotundiloba"). The only bothersome characteristic of the native sweetgum is the messy ...
One thing to keep in mind is that some sweetgum varieties produce spiky seed balls, but cultivars like 'Rotundiloba' are fruitless, making them much easier to maintain. These trees thrive in full ...
The name sweetgum comes from its sweet ... look for the cultivar, 'Rotundiloba.' Its star-shaped leaves have rounded tips, and it sets no fruit. As for my venture into Martha Stewart land ...
Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Liquidambar styraciflua 'Rotundiloba,' is a sterile, non-fruiting cultivar of sweetgum that does not or rarely produces the famous spiky seed pods ...
Sweetgum grows 50 to 75 feet wide and 60 to 100 feet tall, so never plant it close to a structure. There is a fruitless variety called Rotundiloba, which is available at local garden centers.