Can you help identify this Maple?

[Maiden69]

The only reason I think liquidambar is good for beginners is because they are resilient, just like a trident. You can abuse them and they will keep going. But they are not easy to develop unless you are on top of them. I have a L.Orientalis, and it has a mind of its own. I pruned it, wired it, and set up a new leader, and kinda forgot about it till it was time to check the wires for bit-in.... an unlike all the other trees I have done so, the tree decided that the leader I wanted was not the one it wanted. Stopped extending there and sent a leader from a lower location. Needless to say I may be switching directions once leaf drop.

 

[rockm]

They CAN make great bonsai, but they're not easy. Here's one at the National Bonsai And Penjing Museum by Vaughn Banting. Note this is a BIG tree to support the largish leaves and sometimes gangly internode length.

 

[rockm]

They CAN make great bonsai, but they're not easy. Here's one at the National Bonsai And Penjing Museum by Vaughn Banting. Note this is a BIG tree to support the largish leaves and sometimes gangly internode length.

BTW, Vaughn Banting's sweetgum is the North American native species Liquidamber Styraciflua.