Liquidambar Styraciflua

Liquidambar styraciflua is one of the most elegant deciduous trees.
The bark, green in the first year, gray later, becomes corky over time with increasingly deep ribs.
The leaves resemble those of some maples, with five sharp
lobes, slightly toothed, and bright green from spring
to autumn, when they take on some of the most evocative colors in the
world.
A fragrant resin is extracted from the plant, called liquidambar, from liquidus and ambar, amber, a reference to the fragrant resin produced by the tree.