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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 ...
Acer rufinerve, the grey-budded snake-bark-maple, [4] redvein maple or Honshū maple (Japanese: ウリハダカエデ urihadakaede, "melon-skin maple"), is a species of tree in the snakebark maple group, related to Acer capillipes (Kyushu maple). It is native to mountain forests of Japan, on Honshū, Kyūshū and Shikoku. [5] [6] [7] [8]
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.
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.
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]
Aceraceae (maple family) 319 Acer stachyophyllum: birch-leaved maple Aceraceae (maple family) Acer tataricum: Tatar maple Aceraceae (maple family) Acer trautvetteri: red-bud maple; Trautvetter's maple Aceraceae (maple family) Acer triflorum: three-flowered maple Aceraceae (maple family) Acer truncatum: Shandong maple Aceraceae (maple family ...
The bark is green to greenish-brown, with narrow vertical white or pale grey stripes; the young shoots are slender, green to purplish-red and the buds purplish-red. The leaves are 5–8 cm (rarely to 15 cm) long and 4–7 cm broad, dark green to bluish green and often tinged reddish above, paler green below, ovate-triangular, and may be either ...
Hers's maple (Acer grosseri Pax; syn. Acer hersii Rehd.) [6] - bark green with white to pale green stripes. Shoots green. Leaf petiole green; leaf margin more often three-lobed and double-serrate. Along with A. rufinerve, the two subspecies of Père David's maple are among the most commonly cultivated snakebark maples. Both are relatively hardy ...