Four Plants Whose Relatives Are In Eastern Asia (3.19474)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of leaves of four types of plants, including two with flowers.
Upper left text: Four plants whose relatives are in eastern Asia
Plants depicted, from left to right:
- tulip tree
- sweet gum
- Jeffersonia
- May apple
Extent: 1 sheet
Leaf Prints: Sweet-gum (3.27694)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of sweet-gum leaves and stems on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Gum sweet
- Liquidambar styraciflua
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: Sweet-gum (3.31800)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a sweet-gum tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, drawings of a fruit, a seed, and descriptive text.
Header: SWEET GUM
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaf: [text] alternate
- tree: [text] corky ridges on bark of twigs; brilliant Autumn coloring; exudes aromatic rosin
- fruit
- seed
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: Sweet-gum 2 (3.31875)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a sweet-gum tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf and a drawing of a fruit.
Extent: 1 sheet
Education charts: The Deep South (3.34232)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting a deep South association. A detailed illustration of a single tree leaf is positioned at the center of the chart, surrounded by four vingnettes showing additional flora and fauna found within the ecological community.
Header: THE DEEP SOUTH
Labels and image from top to bottom, left to right:
- azalea
- mocking bird
- sweet / gum
- opossum
- magnolia / live oak
Extent: 1 slide
Exhibits: Beall Woods trees, detailed bark and leaves (3.34252)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An exhibit board created by Elizabeth Zimmerman for The Morton Arboretum, depicting detailed drawings of the leaves, bark, and a flower found on trees in Beall Woods.
Labels:
- Hackberry
- Tulip - / "Yellow Poplar"
- Sugarberry
- Dogwood
- Sour Gum -
- Sweet / Gum -
Extent: 1 slide
Uses of Wood Exhibit (3.34367)
Date: September 4 1974Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:An exhibit featuring wood from 18 different trees and its uses. The display is configured in four concentric circles centered around a spinning cross: the inner circle depicts tree silhouettes, the next circle depicts detailed images of leaves, the third consists of square panels of processed wood, and the outer circle consists of dioramas depicting how each type of wood is used.
The cross is labeled as follows:
- TREE SHAPE
- LEAF [red arrow]
- WOOD
- USES
- TURN THE RED ARROW TO A LEAF / THE OTHER ARMS WILL POINT TO: / the shape of the tree / a piece of wood from the tree / some uses for the wood
- WHITE ASH
- ARBOR VITAE
- WHITE SPRUCE
- SWEET GUM
- SUGAR MAPLE
- AMERICAN LINDEN
- CHERRY
- TULIP TREE
- BALD CYPRESS
- IRONWOOD
- WHITE PINE
- BLACK WALNUT
- AMERICAN ELM
- SHAGBARK HICKORY
- WHITE OAK
- RED OAK
- EASTERN HEMLOCK
- PONDEROSA PINE
Extent: 1 slide
Uses of Wood Exhibit: Sweet-gum (3.34383)
Date: September 4 1974Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:A diorama from the Uses of Wood exhibit, depicting an example of how sweet-gum wood is used in items such as lumber for interior woodwork and cigar boxes.
Extent: 1 slide
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 06 No. 01 (3.34570)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1970Type: Serial
Description:
- An Earth Day Talk (1-4)
- A Sketch of the Sweetgums (5-11)
- Photographs by E.H. Wilson (12-13)
- Tulip Tree, Liriodendron tulipifera: Magnolia Family (Magnoliaceae) (14-15)
- Arboretum News and Notes (16)
Extent: 16 pages
Liquidambar styraciflua (American sweetgum) alongside road in Urbana, Illinois (3.37765)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Liquidambar styraciflua (American sweetgum) alongside road in Urbana, Illinois
Extent: 1 negative
2000/04/05: Village of Winnetka to George Ware (3.47259)
Date: April 5 2000Creator: Village of Winnetka
Type: Document
Description:Facsimile from the Village of Winnetka to George Ware listing the species of Arboretum trees along Green Bay Road.
Extent: 1 sheet
Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet-gum), leaves (3.70020)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet-gum), single branch, many five-lobed green leaves
Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet-gum), fruits, leaves (3.70021)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet-gum), fruits formed from multiple carpels, green five-lobed leaves, leaves finely serrate
Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet-gum), fruits, leaves (3.70022)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet-gum), two multiple fruits, syncarp of capsules, green leaves and twigs in background
Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet-gum), trunk, bark (3.70023)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet-gum), trunk, bark, deeply furrowed bark into ridges
Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet-gum), habit (3.70024)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet-gum), form, habit, other plants and sidewalk in background
Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet-gum), leaves, branches, fruit (3.70025)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet-gum), several branches of variably colored leaves, single fruit
Liquidambar styraciflua L. (sweet-gum), leaves, red and yellow fall color (3.70026)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Liquidambar styraciflua L. (sweet-gum), five-lobed leaves, red and yellow fall color
Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet-gum), leaves, fall color (3.70027)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet-gum), five-lobed, red and yellow leaves
Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet-gum), fruit, leaves (3.70028)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet-gum), one multiple fruit, syncarp of capsules, green finely toothed leaves in background
Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet-gum), leaves, fall color (3.70029)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet-gum), five-lobed leaves, red fall color
Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet-gum), branch with fruits and leaves (3.70030)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet-gum), branch with fruits and five-lobed green leaves
Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet-gum), leaves, fall color (3.70031)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet-gum), dark red five-lobed leaves, fine teeth visible
Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet-gum), branches with leaves (3.70032)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet-gum), few branches of leaves, five-lobed leaves, blue sky in background
Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet-gum), leaves, fall color (3.70033)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet-gum), dark red five-lobed leaves, some yellow leaves in background
Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet-gum), fruits on bare branches (3.70034)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet-gum), fruits on bare branches, gray bark
Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet-gum) leaves, fall color (3.70035)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet-gum), red, five-lobed, finely serrate leaves
Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet-gum), fruits lying in snow (3.70036)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet-gum), a few fruits lying in snow, syncarp of capsules, multiple fruits
Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet-gum), fruit (3.70037)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet-gum), close-up of two fruits, syncarp of capsules, fingers holding fruits
Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet-gum), habit, flooding (3.70038)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet-gum), habit, tree in very wet area, leaves beginning to turn fall color, highway in background
Liquidambar styraciflua L. (sweet-gum), leaves, fall coor (3.70040)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Liquidambar styraciflua L. (sweet-gum), five-lobed leaves, dentate leaves
Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet-gum), leaves, fall color (3.70041)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet-gum), red and orange five-lobed leaves
Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet-gum), leave, fall color (3.70042)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet-gum), burgundy five-lobed leaves
Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet-gum), leaves, fall color (3.70043)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet-gum), red and yellow five-lobed leaves
Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet-gum), leaves, fall color (3.70045)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet-gum), bright red five-lobed leaves, fall color
Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet-gum), leaves, fall color (3.70046)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet-gum), fall color, red five-lobed leaves