the Maples of Asia (continuation):
Other Asiatic Maples (China, Japan) are small trees
(10 m) growing in acid soils:
Japanese Maple (A. palmatum)
Habitat: It can fit with an acid soil (2/3 soil of heather, 1/3 peat);
It prefers the neutral soils, or loamy, but not blocked up in winter,
makes the best of dry fields. It does not support the drying winds.
Small leaves in 5-7 red pointed lobes in autumn.
Crimson flowers, in corymbs, in May-June.
A. palmatum linearilobum atropurpureum: Crimson leaves in spider.
Small, red fruits with maturity, grouped. |
Acer acuminatum
Acer buergerianum
Acer capillipes
Acer cappadocicum
Acer carpinifolium
Acer davidii
Acer ginnala
Acer griseum
Acer grosseri hersii
Acer japonicum
Acer palmatum
Acer pycnanthum
Acer shirasawanum
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Amur Mmaple (A. ginnala):
Widely spread Form.
Smooth, dark brown bark.
Small leaves in three lobes, red petiole rouge, 7 cm long.
Red winged fruits and of nice red fire colour (hence its nickname, Fire maple) in autumn.
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Downy Japanese Maple or Fullmoon Maple (A. japonicum): leaves rounded, composed with 7 to 11 acuminate lobes (less deep than in A. palmatum), border with sharp teeth; 13 cm long (bigger than that of A. palmatum); downy short petiole; green colour turning to the red in autumn.
A variety, coritifolium, has webbed leaves and deeply laciniate
A variety has leaves deeply laciniate. |
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