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Norway maple, red maple and sugar maple are the species most commonly affected. The trouble often starts after insect-induced defoliation, which weakens the trees and makes them more susceptible to secondary pathogens. Early signs of decline include small or scorched foliage, and premature fall colors on some of a tree's branches.
In autumn, the leaves turn bright orange to dark red. The flowers are 1 cm in diameter, dark purplish-red with five sepals and petals; they are produced 10–15 together in drooping corymbs in early spring as the leaves start to open. The fruit is a paired samara with the nutlets 7 mm in diameter with a 20–25 mm wing, hanging under the leaves.
Cappadocian maple; Caucasian maple; coliseum maple Aceraceae (maple family) Acer carpinifolium: hornbeam-leaved maple Aceraceae (maple family) Acer caudatifolium: Kawakami maple Aceraceae (maple family) Acer caudatum: tail-leaf maple Aceraceae (maple family) Acer cinnamomifolium: leatherleaf maple; Yunnan maple Aceraceae (maple family) Acer ...
A slow-growing, dwarf Japanese maple, it features rich, red, heavily dissected leaves that turn more vibrant tones of red in fall. It only gets 2-3 feet tall, and 6-8 feet wide. Zones 4-9
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]
Acer spicatum is a deciduous shrub or small tree growing to 3–8 m (10–25 ft) tall, forming a spreading crown with a short trunk and slender branches. The leaves are opposite and simple, 6–10 cm (2 + 1 ⁄ 4 –4 in) long and wide, with 3 or 5 shallow broad lobes. They are coarsely and irregularly toothed with a light green hairless ...
Although the idea of the tree as a national symbol originally hailed from the province of Quebec [18] where the sugar maple is significant, today's arboreal emblem of Canada rather refers to a generic maple. [19] The design on the flag is an eleven-point stylization modeled after a sugar maple leaf (which normally bears 23 points). [20]
The following year, another man in North Carolina was injured after his hunting partner shot a bear in a tree. The animal fell out of the tree and began biting the victim. The man and the bear ...