The Sweetgum is a tree that has a star like leaf with 5 to 7 points on it. It is green in the summer & yellow or purple in winter. The trunk is normally straight and does not divide into many branches. It grows smaller side branches that grow into a triangle shape when young. As the tree grows older it becomes more oval or rounded and the branches become larger in diameter.
The Sweeetgum grows in valleys, moist areas, along the bottom of sloped areas and sometimes in wooded areas. It is found mostly in the eastern United States .
The Sweetgum grows best on the moist clay and loamy soils of river bottoms where the water has washed away the banks. The density of the sweetgum increase with greater deposits of potassium and decreases with greater deposits of clay.
The climates varies with rainfall of 40 inches in the North and 60 inches in the South. The maximum temperature is 100 F and the low temperature is -5 F.
The Sweetgum reproduces from dry seed balls that drop from the tree.
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1 comment:
Our plants that we chose are almost nothing alike except that they both grow in moist areas. I also thought It was cool that it turns purple or yellow in the winter If I hadn't of read this I would have thought this plant was poison ivy.It was also cool that the climate could get as hot as 100degrees or as low as 5 degrees. I enjoyed this essay I thought your plant was cool.
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