Rivalling the best Japanese maples, award-winning Liquidambar styraciflua 'Worplesdon' (Sweet Gum) is a magnificent, deciduous tree adorned with a straight trunk and a broadly conical crown at maturity. Its foliage of large, star-shaped, deeply lobed, glossy green leaves turns fiery red, orange, and yellow in fall before falling, revealing the attractive branching pattern, furrowed bark, and corky wings on twigs. In mid-late spring, inconspicuous, which usually remain on the tree through the winter. A superb choice for fall colour, this Sweet Gum is good-looking all year and makes a superb shade tree or specimen tree. Excellent plant for moist soil areas along streams and ponds.