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Pioneers made cinnamon-brown and black dyes from a bark extract, and iron sulphate could be added to the tannin from red maple bark in order to make ink. [29] Red maple is a medium quality firewood, [30] possessing less heat energy, nominally 5.4 gigajoules per cubic metre (18.7 million British thermal units per cord) , than other hardwoods ...
They are dark green and hairless above, with a yellow-green and softly pubescent underside. In autumn, the leaves turn from a brilliant yellow to orange to deep red. The fruit is a paired brown samara, 2-2.5 cm long, maturing in autumn. [3] Acer leucoderme is often confused with Acer floridanum (Florida maple), but there are several differences.
Paperbark maple (Acer griseum) Acer maximowiczianum leaves. Series Emeiensia. Acer sutchuenense Franch. Series Grisea. Acer griseum (Franch.) Pax – paperbark maple; Acer maximowiczianum Miq. – Nikko maple; Acer triflorum Komarov – three-flowered maple; Series Mandshurica. Acer mandshuricum Maxim. – Manchurian maple
Maple flowers are green, yellow, orange or red. Though individually small, the effect of an entire tree in flower can be striking in several species. Some maples are an early spring source of pollen and nectar for bees. 3D rendering of a μCT scan of a samara. Resolution is about 45 μm/voxel.
Field maple Acer campestre, in Ebsdorfergrund-Frauenberg, Hesse, Germany. Aceraceae were recognized as a family of flowering plants also called the maple family. They contain two to four genera, depending upon the circumscription, of some 120 species of trees and shrubs. A common characteristic is that the leaves are opposite, and the fruit a ...
The sugar maple is most easily identified by clear sap in the leaf petiole (the Norway maple has white sap), brown, sharp-tipped buds (the Norway maple has blunt, green or reddish-purple buds), and shaggy bark on older trees (the Norway maple bark has small grooves). Also, the leaf lobes of the sugar maple have a more triangular shape, in ...
Acer palmatum, commonly known as Japanese maple, [3] palmate maple, [4] or smooth Japanese maple [5] (Korean: danpungnamu, 단풍나무, Japanese: irohamomiji, イロハモミジ, or momiji, (栴)), is a species of woody plant native to Korea, Japan, China, eastern Mongolia, and southeast Russia. [6]
The leaves turn golden yellow to red [4] in autumn (less reliably in warmer areas). In Texas, specimens do not color well if they have a heavy seed year. [5] The flowers appear with the leaves in mid spring; they are produced in corymbs of 5–15 together, each flower yellow-green, about 4–5 millimetres (3 ⁄ 16 – 3 ⁄ 16 in