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Fig. 38.-Glossy privet, Ligustrum lucidum (left) and Fig. 39 sweet gum, Liquid-
 ambar styraciflua.

 Several varieties or selections of glossy privet are available from
nurseries, including: Excelsum superbum, leaves mottled with yellow;
Aureo-marginata, leaves mottled yellow along margins; Tricolor,
leaves marbled with cream and pink; and 'Blackleaf' with deep dark
green foliage.
 Glossy privet is useful as a tall, clipped or unclipped hedge for
screen plantings, as a base plant for tall buildings, as a street tree
for narrow streets and as a small framing tree. This tree can also
be used for planting near the seacoast, since it is moderately salt
tolerant. Trees are sometimes subject to attack by scales, white fly
and sooty mold.

 Liquidambar styraciflua. Hamamelidaceae. Sweet Gum. South-
ern, Central and Northern area. Deciduous. Native.
 Sweet gum is found throughout most of Florida except for the
extreme southern part. This tree is a vigorous grower, pyramidal in
shape when young, irregular at maturity to 100 feet in height (Fig.
39). Foliage is dense and leaves are palmately 5-lobed, 4 inches long
and wide, star-shaped in appearance, and turn red, yellow and purple
in late fall. A winged, corky growth is conspicuous on branches of
some trees. Fruit is a spiny globe about 1 inch in diameter.