Types of Maple

Several species, including Acer griseum (Paperbark Maple), Acer mandshuricum (Manchurian Maple), Acer maximowiczianum (Nikko Maple), and Acer triflorum (Three-flowered Maple), have trifoliate leaves. One species, Acer negundo (Box-elder), has pinnately compound leaves that may be simply trifoliate or may have five, seven, or rarely nine leaflets.

Acer buergerianum (trident maple; Chinese: 三角枫 san jiao feng) is a species of maple native to eastern China (from Shandong west to southeastern Gansu, south to Guangdong and Taiwan, and southwest to Sichuan) and Japan.

Details A. capillipes is a snakebark maple making a small deciduous tree with white-striped young branches and 3-lobed leaves to 12cm in length, red and yellow in autumn.

Acer cappadocicum (Cappadocian maple) is a maple native to Asia, from central Turkey (ancient Cappadocia) east along the Caucasus, the Himalaya, to southwestern China.

Acer carpinifolium is a deciduous Shrub growing to 10 m (32ft) by 6 m (19ft) at a slow rate. It is hardy to zone (UK) 5. It is in flower in May, and the seeds ripen in October. The species is dioecious (individual flowers are either male or female, but only one sex is to be found on any one plant so both male and female plants must be grown if seed is required). The plant is not self-fertile.

Acer ginnala (Amur maple) is a plant species with woody stems native to northeastern Asia from easternmost Mongolia east to Korea and Japan, and north to the Russian Far East in the Amur River valley. It is a small maple with deciduous leaves that is sometimes grown as a garden subject or boulevard tree.

Acer japonicum, the Amur maple, downy Japanese-maple or fullmoon maple; Japanese: ハウチワカエデ, translit. hauchiwakaede) is a species of maple native to Japan, on Honshū, Hokkaidō, Kyūshū (Nagasaki Prefecture), and also southern Korea.

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Acer miyabei, commonly called Miyabe maple, is a deciduous, small to medium, oval to oval-rounded tree that typically grows to 25-40’ tall.

The Montpellier Maple is botanically called Acer monspessulanum. The Tree is a deciduous tree, it will be up to 10 m (33 ft) high. The leaves are lobed and the flowers are yellow.

Acer nigrum (black maple) is a species of maple closely related to A. saccharum (sugar maple), and treated as a subspecies of it by some authors, as Acer saccharum subsp. nigrum. Identification can be confusing due to the tendency of the two species to form hybrids.

The Italian Maple is botanically called Acer opalus. The Tree is a deciduous tree, it will be up to 20 m (66 ft) high. The leaves are lobed and the flowers are yellowish.

Acer pseudosieboldianum, the Korean maple or purplebloom maple, is a species of maple. It is native to northeastern China, Korea, and the Russian Far East.

Acer rufinerve (grey-budded snake-bark-maple, redvein maple or Honshū maple; Japanese: ウリハダカエデ urihadakaede, "melon-skin maple"), is a maple in the snakebark maple group, related to Acer capillipes (Kyushu Maple). It is native to mountains forests of Japan, on Honshū, Kyūshū and Shikoku.

Acer macrophyllum, the bigleaf maple or Oregon maple, is a large deciduous tree in the genus Acer. It can grow up to 48.79 metres (160 ft 1 in) tall, but more commonly reaches 15–20 m (50–65 ft) tall.

Boxelder is a fast-growing maple tree native to this country. Although drought resistant, boxelder maple trees do not have a lot of ornamental appeal to homeowners. Click this article for additional boxelder tree information.

Field maple is an intermediate species in the ecological succession of disturbed areas; it typically is not among the first trees to colonise a freshly disturbed area, but instead seeds in under the existing vegetation.

The Japanese maple is known for its small, delicate leaves with pointy lobes that spread outward like fingers on a palm. The lifespan of Japanese maple trees mostly depends on care and environmental conditions.

Acer spicatum (mountain maple) is a species of maple native to northeastern North America from Saskatchewan to Newfoundland, and south to Pennsylvania. It also grows at high elevations in the southern Appalachian Mountains to northern Georgia.

The hard and soft maple division is primarily a North American categorization meant to distinguish Hard Maple from the various other species of softer maples.) Norway Maple bears closest relation to Field Maple, another European species with an intermediate hardness.

The paperbark maple, like other members of the Acer genus, produces a fruiting structure called a samara, and they dangle from the branches, resembling papery wings. Most of the seed produced by the paperbark maple is sterile and will not produce unwanted seedlings, unlike that of many other maples.

Acer rubrum, the red maple, also known as swamp, water or soft maple, is one of the most common and widespread deciduous trees of eastern and central North America. The U.S. Forest service recognizes it as the most abundant native tree in eastern North America.

Acer saccharinum, commonly known as silver maple, creek maple, silverleaf maple, soft maple, large maple, water maple, swamp maple, or white maple —is a species of maple native to eastern and central North America in the eastern United States and Canada.

The leaves of Striped maple are lobed with 3 pointed lobes. The leaves are 8 - 15 cm (3.2 - 5.9 in) long and 6 - 12 cm (2.4 - 4.7 in) broad. The leaf margin is serrated.

How to Identify Sugar Maple Trees Three Methods: Identifying Sugar Maple Trees by their Leaves Identifying Sugar Maples by their Bark and Twigs Identifying Sugar Maples by their Fruit Community Q&A The sugar maple tree (Acer saccharum) grows abundantly in the northeastern part of North America: the northeastern United States (including as far south as Tennessee) and the southeastern portion of Canada.

Invasive Plants in Pennsylvania Sycamore Maple Acer pseudoplatanus L. Description: This deciduous tree can reach up to 100 feet in height. The bark has irregular scales and

Three-flowered maple The shaggy peeling bark and glorious yellow, orange, and red fall foliage make up for the inconspicuous nature of this ornamental tree's namesake flowers. Three-flowered maple is a fine specimen tree for gardens, with a habit that can be upright or spreading.

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