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The largest known living red maple is located near Armada, Michigan, at a height of 38.1 m (125 ft) and a bole circumference, at breast height, of 4.95 m (16 ft 3 in). [8] Leaves on a branchlet from a specimen in northern Florida. The leaves of the red maple offer the
A maple leaf is on the coat of arms of Canada, and is on the Canadian flag. The maple is a common symbol of strength and endurance and has been chosen as the national tree of Canada. Maple leaves are traditionally an important part of Canadian Forces military regalia, for example, the military rank insignia for generals use maple leaf symbols ...
During the First World War, badges of the Canadian Expeditionary Force were often based on a maple leaf design. [8] In 1957, the maple leaf colour on the Canadian arms was changed from green to red [9] – some maple leaves are commonly red even in spring as they bud and no seasonal colouring has been assigned heraldically.
The sugar maple is easy to differentiate by clear sap in the petiole (leaf stem); Norway maple petioles have white sap. [citation needed] The tips of the points on Norway maple leaves reduce to a fine "hair", while the tips of the points on sugar maple leaves are, on close inspection, rounded. On mature trees, sugar maple bark is more shaggy ...
The leaves are 10–15 cm long and 6–12 cm broad, with three or five lobes, the basal lobes of five-lobed leaves being small; they have a serrated margin, conspicuous veining, and a reddish 4–8 cm petiole. They are matt to sub-shiny green in summer, turning to bright yellow, orange or red in the autumn.
Columnist Bill Lamont noticed that some of his trees looked like October foliage in August.
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 leaf stems bleed a milky latex when broken. The flowers are in corymbs of 15-30 together, yellow-green with five petals 3–4 mm long; flowering occurs in early spring. The fruit is a double samara with two winged seeds , the seeds are disc-shaped, strongly flattened, 6–11 mm across and 2–3 mm thick.