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Sweetgums Liquidambar

Every rated Liquidambar record is fire-resistant — 2 of 4 records, including the genus rated as a group; none is condemned. These counts describe the cited records — 4 records carrying 38 evidence rows from 22 cited sources; they do not make one verdict for the genus.

Rated as a group: sweetgum Liquidambar Fire-resistant Limited evidence 1 source rate the genus as a whole. Species evidence never rolls upward into a genus verdict, and genus claims never override a species record. ›

Fire-resistant

1 species

American sweetgum Fire-resistant Liquidambar styraciflua Majority — dissent on page · 27 sources Zones 5–9 genus-level claims ↑

Awaiting evidence

2 species

About sweetgums

Corpus context. Liquidambar is the directory's #213 largest of 550 genus groups: 4 records carrying 38 evidence rows from 22 cited sources, recorded as tree , hardy across USDA zones 5–9. Those are corpus facts, not a whole-genus flammability claim.

More about Liquidambar: Wikipedia — external references; not evidence sources.

Where rated sweetgums grow

Tagged as growing in 31 states.

See Liquidambar on Grow → · JSON