This is intermediate pyramidal in youthfulness tree , matures to a rounded deciduous Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree . Star - shaped leaves are resonant of some maples . They have 5 - 7 lobes and appear either alternate or palmate and average unripened and glossy , turning to strike burgundy to loss . This sweetgum does n’t produce much fruit . Plant in full Dominicus for best fall gloss .
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Characteristics
Requirements
Plant Care
Fertilizing
Light
Watering
Planting
If container - grown , lay the tree on its side and remove the container . Loosen the rootage around the edges without breaking up the stem ball too much . place tree in center of cakehole so that the best side faces forwards . You are quick to begin filling in with stain .
If institute a balled and burlaped Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree , position it in mess so that the best side face forward . loosen or remove nails from burlap at top of ball and pull out gunny back , so it does not stick out of hole when soil is replace . Synthetic gunny should be removed as it will not break up like rude burlap . big trees often come in wire basket . Plant as you would a b&b works , but curve as much of the telegram away as potential without actually removing the handbasket . hazard are , you would do more harm to the rootball by removing the handbasket . Simply skip away wire to give several large curtain raising for roots .
Fill both cakehole with soil the same manner . Never amend with less than half original land . Recent studies show that if your dirt is slack enough , you are good off adding little or no grunge amendments .
Create a water ring around the out edge of the hole . Not only will this conseve water , but will direct wet to perimeter etymon , encouraging stunned growth . Once tree is established , water ring may be even . Studies show that mulched tree grow faster than those unmulched , so add a 3 " " layer of pinestraw , compost , or pulverized barque over backfilled orbit . Remove any damage limbs .
Problems
Prevention and Control : take away infected leaves when the plant is ironical . Leaves that amass around the base of the plant should be raked up and qualify of . Avoid overhead irrigation if potential ; urine should be directed at soil level . For fungous leaf spots , apply a recommend fungicide agree to label directions .
Miscellaneous
Although many people conceive that cooler temperatures are responsible for for the color change , the weather has nothing to do with it at all . As the days grow shorter and the night longer , a chemical clock inside the tree begin up , releasing a endocrine which restricts the flow of sap to each leaf . As fall advancement , the sap current slow down and chlorophyll , the chemical that gives the leaves their fleeceable color in the spring and summer , disappears . The residual sap becomes more concentrated as it dries , creating the coloration of fall . gloss : DeciduousDeciduousrefers to those plants that lose their leaves or needles at the end of the growing time of year . Glossary : TreeTree : a woody repeated with a top of arm that set out atop a single radical or trunk . The exception to this rule is multi - trunk trees , which some may contend are really very gravid shrub .
