Sweetgum 'Slender Silhouette'
    	
  • Current height: 4 feet
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  • Mature height: 60 to 80 feet, with a spread of just 4 to 6 feet
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  • Growth rate: Medium to fast (13” to more than 24” per year)
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  • Light: Full sun
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  • Soil: Medium.
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  • Landscape uses: Good as a specimen or hedge, and for tight spaces.  Nice fall color.
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  • Fun fact: In earlier times, a chewing gum was produced from the resinlike solid scraped from inside the bark.
 

Sweetgum 'Slender Silhouette'

SKU: LS02-SS
$55.00Price
3 Gallons

  • Pollinator value: Very high.  Benefits native bees, honey bees, wasps, flies and beetles, and many bird species feast on the seeds.

    Dubbed 'Slender silhouette,' this cultivar grows in a column, with a spread of only 4 to 6 feet so that its infamous hard, spiky seed balls fall close to the trunk and not all over the lawn.  Its fall foliage can offer a brilliant mix of yellows, oranges, reds, and purples.