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Slender Silhouette Sweet Gum
Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Slender Silhouette’
Everything is included in this price: the plant, free delivery and professional installation
The price you see is the whole job: the plant supplied, delivered free and professionally installed. Done for you.
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Request photosHow tall it arrives: 400mm about 1.5 to 2.5m, 500mm about 2.5 to 3.5m. Heights vary with species and season. How pot sizes work
Getting it in: the largest size here needs about 900mm to 1.2m of clear access. Measure the narrowest point on the route and tell us on the booking call. Standard access is included in the price, and anything unusual is quoted and agreed with you before work begins. What happens on installation day
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Sizes shown are the sizes we currently source in this species. If you need larger specimens, project quantities or a size not listed, our sourcing team can look for it through our national supplier network. We confirm your exact stock with you on the booking call before anything ships.
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After checkout, our team contacts you to confirm site access and book a day that suits. Most orders are delivered and planted within 2 to 4 weeks of your booking call. Nothing else for you to organise.
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Product Details
Overview & Specifications
Price includes everything: the plant, free delivery and professional installation by our planting team. One price, whole job done.
Slender Silhouette Sweet Gum - Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Slender Silhouette’
This is the narrowest deciduous shade tree in common Australian cultivation, reaching well over ten metres on a trunk barely two metres wide at the shoulders. Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Slender Silhouette’ holds its branches almost vertically against the leader, producing an exclamation mark of a tree that still delivers full liquidambar autumn colour. It is specified where height is needed and there is simply no horizontal room, such as between a driveway and a boundary wall.
Why Slender Silhouette Sweet Gum
Extreme Narrowness: A mature spread of 1.5 to 2.5m allows a tall tree in a bed less than two metres wide.
Full Height: It reaches 10 to 15m, so it screens second storey windows that low trees cannot reach.
Autumn Colour: The species colour of orange, red and purple appears on the column, concentrated rather than spread across a canopy.
Architectural Line: The vertical form is used deliberately in contemporary design to echo posts, columns and building edges.
No Shaping Required: The habit is genetic, so the shape is maintained without clipping or staking into form.
Ideal Applications
Narrow Side Setbacks: A row along the gap between house and boundary screens neighbours without crowding the path.
Contemporary Entries: Planted in a rhythm along a facade it gives vertical repetition against rendered walls.
Screening Between Buildings: It blocks overlooking upper windows in townhouse developments where canopy width is impossible.
Pool and Courtyard Edges: The tight column keeps foliage overhead and clear of the water and seating below.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 2 to 3m for a continuous column of foliage
Spacing (feature/avenue): 10 to 12m
Best Planting Season: Winter, while fully dormant
Soil & Drainage: Free draining soil with consistent moisture at depth; the narrow root plate dislikes drying out completely
Establishment Care: Water twice weekly through the first two summers, since a slim canopy over a small root ball dries faster than a spreading tree. Mulch to at least a metre across and stake against strong wind for the first two seasons, checking ties so they never cut into the bark.
Plant Details
Height: To 15m or more in good soil, though smaller and slower than a seedling liquidambar
Width: 1.5 to 2.5m
Growth Rate: Moderate to fast
Foliage: Deciduous, orange through red to purple in autumn
Light: Full sun
Native to: The species comes from eastern North America
Flower Colour: Insignificant
Delivery & Installation
Delivery and installation are included in your price
No freight calculators and no separate installation quote for a standard installation. Your price covers specialist plant transport, positioning and professional planting by our installation team. The whole job, handled.
- Wrapped, secured and transported by specialist plant freight.
- Professionally planted, staked and finished by our install team.
- Our team confirms site access and schedules a time that suits you.
Installation
Professional installation included, never extra
Every plant we sell is planted by our professional installation team, and it's already in the price. We coordinate the delivery, the machinery and the planting for standard site access, so your only job is choosing the tree. Unusual access or engineering requirements? We'll confirm everything with you after checkout before any work begins.
Questions? Send An EnquiryWhy Nursery Direct
Every price includes supply, delivery and installation
Buying a mature tree often means three separate jobs: the plant, the freight and finding someone to plant it. We price the whole job as one: the tree, the delivery and the professional install.
- One price: supplied, delivered and installed
- Mature trees and specimen palms at every scale
- National sourcing for hard-to-find stock
- Residential, estate and commercial projects
How It Works
Place your order. We do the rest.
We Supply
Premium advanced stock, selected from a national network of wholesale growers.
We Deliver
Specialist plant freight brings your order to your door. Free, anywhere in Australia.
We Install
Our professional team plants, stakes, mulches and finishes the job on site.







