liquidambar
Liquidambar orientalis latin

Although it does seem hard to believe, witch hazels are closely related to sweet gum trees, liquidambar.

Ginkgo and liquidambar leaves are also employed.

Unfortunately, the liquidambar forest area has been reduced by illegal tree felling to create new or vaster agricultural fields.

The American sweetgum (liquidambar sty raciflua) is a swamp lover that will do just fine in drier soils.

S Chani from Hayes with a photograph of autumn shades of liquidambar leaves collected from a single tree.

Apart from agricultural land for growing citrus fruit, sesame and cotton, there are wetlands, extensive liquidambar forests, pine forests and maquis.

Arboretum - liquidambar, maple, oak, sequoia, etc.; designed by Mark Rudkin and Michel Boulcourt in 1986.

Riparian Garden (1992) - original valley oak trees, corkscrew leaf willows, birch, purpleleaf plum, liquidambar, vine maple, hemerocallis, buddleia, and ochna.

The liquidambar, as well as several poplars and willows, cannot be distinguished from those of Oeningen; the same is true of an Elm, a Carpinus, and others.

At Nymans in Sussex last week, the best reds were from American nyssa and liquidambar trees, vying for attention with the superb lemon yellow of shagbark hickory, Carya ovata.

The arboretum brings together examples of many different species of acer, ilex, liquidambar, magnolia, styrax, taxus, quercus, many of which are recent plant discoveries from remote mountain ranges in Mexico.

A similar preparation called Friar's Balsam or Compound Benzoin Tincture (USP) contains, in addition, Cape aloes and storax (liquidambar resin).

Temperate Deciduous Forest - A selection of trees and shrubs from temperate China and the Eastern U.S. including paper mulberry, dawn redwood, golden rain tree, liquidambar, and maples.

Older trees include araucarias, Lawson cypresses, sequoiadendrons, thujas, and Virginia tulip trees; these have been augmented with new plantings of cedar of Lebanon, Gingko biloba, liquidambar, Negundo maple, etc.

Plants of interest include arbutus, beech, Cedar of Lebanon, liquidambar, oak, redwood, collections of roses and ophrys of Aveyron, and displays of about 10,000 flowering plants renewed twice a year.

The place had a jaillike quality-narrow, silvered windows bolted and barred, the front door a slab of brushed steel, no landscaping other than a single thirsty liquidambar tree which cast spindly shadows on the tar-paper roof.

Maples, sumachs, sourwood (Oxydendrum), liquidambar, azaleas, rowans and amelanchier all help to fuel the bonfire, together with nyssa and cercidiphyllum closer to the water - the latter infusing the air with caramel scent (if not, pick up a handful of the fallen leaves and inhale deeply).

As such, Liquidambar orientalis holds an important position in Turkey's biodiversity and among endemic species, is one of its best-known symbols.

From storax, the resin of the Liquidambar orientalis),' he distilled an oily substance, a monomer which he named styrol.

Liquidambar orientalis, the Oriental sweetgum or Turkish sweetgum, a deciduous tree species native to the eastern Mediterranean region

Liquidambar orientalis - Oriental Sweetgum or Turkish Sweetgum (southwest Turkey, Greece: Rhodes).

These included Vitex chinensis and Gloriosa superba, a climbing lily from Senegal and Liquidambar orientalis from the Levant.

She is particularly concerned for the protection of the soft-shelled Nile Turtle and the Oriental Sweetgum trees (Liquidambar orientalis), another endemic species proper to the region.

Noteworthy specimens include Cedrus deodara, Dasylirion glaucophyllum and Dasylirion acrotrichum, Erythrina crista-galli, and Liquidambar orientalis.

Storax is the resinous exudate of the tree Liquidambar orientalis (commonly called oriental sweetgum or Turkish sweetgum), occasionally used in incense or as an aromatic fixative in perfumery.

The hydrocarbon styrene is named for Levant styrax from this species (Liquidambar orientalis), from which it was first isolated, and not for the genus Styrax itself; industrially produced styrene is now used to produce polystyrene plastics, including Styrofoam.

Turkish sweetgum (Liquidambar orientalis) is a quite unrelated tree in the family Altingiaceae that produces a similar resin traded in modern times as storax or as "Levant styrax," like the resins of other sweetgums, and a number of confusing variations thereupon.

Styrene is named for "styrax" (also called "storax Levant"), the resin from a Turkish tree, the Oriental sweetgum (Liquidambar orientalis), from which it was first isolated, and not for the tropical Styrax trees from which benzoin resin is produced.

Liquidambar orientalis, commonly known as oriental sweetgum or Turkish sweetgum, is a deciduous tree in the genus Liquidambar, native to the eastern Mediterranean region, that occurs as pure stands mainly in the flood plains of southwestern Turkey and on the Greek island of Rhodes.