liquidámbar 31
Ornamental deciduous tree native to North America from the family of the altingiaceas, used medicinally by the Cherokee Indians and other tribes prior to contact with Europeans in the 16th century, ( liquidambar styraciflua ). Features this plant spreads are discontinuous longitudinal edges acorchadas in the cortex, palmed and lobed leaves of bright red in the fall, the odorous rojizo-amarillenta resin that segregates and tilting the seed capsules.