What kind of tree is this?

Thank you! Looking at Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Rotundiloba trees online, those leaves look pretty close. Perhaps I will wait until the leaves have matured and post a photo of them plus the bark and a spiky ball.

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housepoor | 7 years and 4 months ago

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I have been trying to figure out what kind of tree I have, based on the leaf. Any ideas? I have attached a photo, although this leaf is not yet fully grown. There is no real flower, only spherical spiky things that fall off. Thanks for your help. [IMG_4930](//muut.com/u/brownstoner/s3/:brownstoner:6fIX:img_4930.jpg.jpg)

brokelin | 7 years and 4 months ago

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Your post got me curious, so I did some googling for you. Though hard to say definitively from just a leaf (the pattern of leaf growth from the stem, the bark, the tree shape all help in tree identification), the leaf looks like a Sweetgum leaf, specifically the Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Rotundiloba.’ Some site say these produce no sticky balls, some they they produce some, but fewer than other sweetgum varieties. There are also sweegum varieties native to the Mediterranean, Liquidambar orentialis, that produce spiky balls, but in the photos I saw tend to have pointier leaf lobes.