Variegata gum tree" 2.50 - 3.00 m Liquidambar styraciflua "Variegata"
Liquidambar styraciflua (Gum Tree) is a tree native to North America. One of the most elegant deciduous trees with a straight trunk covered in well-spaced branches initially forming a regular pyramidal crown, which becomes rounded with age. The bark, green in the first year and then gray, cracks and becomes covered with veins that gradually deepen. The leaves are long-petioled and resemble a maple leaf, with 5 pointed, slightly serrated lobes, bright green from spring to autumn when they take on the most beautiful colors, from golden yellow, orange, bright red to purple-burgundy . The flowers are formed at the same time as the leaves, barely visible, neither the male ones (yellow, round, grouped in racemes), nor the female ones that are grouped in short inflorescences. The drooping, round fruits, initially green and then brown when ripe, resemble flat fruits but are smaller in size. It likes cool, moist, but not boggy soils. It adapts to other types of soil, provided it is not too dry and very calcareous. The tree can be planted individually or in groups of three, or together with other trees with colorful foliage in street alignments or urban spaces. It can also be planted in small gardens because its growth can be controlled by cutting, which it resists extremely well. In the first years after planting, the tree develops its root system at the expense of crown growth. Liquidambar styraciflua 'Variegata' ('Variegata Gum Tree') is one of the most beautiful varieties of Liquidambar, with sharp 5- or 7-lobed pale green leaves. -grey and sometimes streaked with yellow-silver, shade of pink in spring. Especially colorful in the fall when the color difference of the variegated remains during the color change preceding the fall of the leaves, the predominant being different shades of pink and red.
Maximum height: 10 - 12 m
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Maximum width: 6 - 8 m
Zone 5 -28.8°C / -23.4°C (minimum temperature resistance).
Growth: moderate.
Location: sun, partial shade.
Plant resistance zones in Europe:
Average annual minimum temperature in °C*< /p>
Zone 1 < -45.5°C
Zone 2 -45.5°C / -40.1°C
Zone 3 -40.0°C / -34.5°C
Zone 4 - 34.4°C / -28.9°C
Zone 5 -28.8°C / -23.4°C
Zone 6 -23.3°C / -17.8°C
Zone 7 -17.7°C / -12.3°C
Zone 8 -12.2°C / -6.7°C
Zone 9 -6.6°C / -1.2°C p> Zone 10 -1.1°C / +4.4°C
Zone 11 > +4.4°C
* Minimum temperatures are an important factor that determines plant hardiness (the ability of plants to survive where these minimum temperatures can occur).
p>This principle was created in the early 1960s by the "United States Department of Agriculture" and then adapted for Europe by W. Heinz and D. Schreiber. < p>Based on this principle, Europe was divided into 11 zones.
