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Acer rubrum, the red maple, also known as swamp maple, water maple, or soft maple, is one of the most common and widespread deciduous trees of eastern and central North America. The U.S. Forest Service recognizes it as the most abundant native tree in eastern North America. [ 4 ]
Maple species, such as Acer rubrum, may be monoecious, dioecious or polygamodioecious. The flowers are regular, pentamerous, and borne in racemes, corymbs, or umbels. They have four or five sepals, four or five petals about 1–6 mm long (absent in some species), four to ten stamens about 6–10 mm long, and two pistils or a pistil with two styles.
Acer × freemanii, Freeman maple or Freeman's maple, is a naturally occurring hybrid maple that is the result of a cross between Acer rubrum (red maple) and Acer saccharinum (silver maple). Wild specimens are found in eastern North America where the parent species overlap.
Acer chaneyi Knowlton (Oligocene to Miocene, Western US) [2] †Acer ferrignoi Wolfe & Tanai (Late Miocene, Oregon) [2] †Acer kenaicum Wolfe & Tanai (Oligocene, Kenai group, Alaska) [2] Acer laurinum Hassk. - # Acer pycnanthum K.Koch; Acer rubrum L. – red maple; Acer saccharinum L. – silver maple
Acer creticum: Cretan maple Aceraceae (maple family) Acer davidii: David's maple Aceraceae (maple family) Acer diabolicum: horned maple Aceraceae (maple family) Acer discolor: Chinese maple; Hunan maple Aceraceae (maple family) Acer distylum: lime-leaved maple Aceraceae (maple family) Acer elegantulum: elegant maple Aceraceae (maple family ...
The maples belong to the genus Acer, an important group of mainly deciduous trees and shrubs in the family Sapindaceae, which are widely cultivated throughout the temperate northern hemisphere. Some, such as Acer griseum , have ornamental bark; but most are valued in cultivation for their brilliant autumn foliage in shades of yellow, orange and ...
The silver maple is closely related to the red maple (Acer rubrum) and can hybridise with it. The hybrid is known as the Freeman maple (Acer × freemanii). The Freeman maple is a popular ornamental tree in parks and large gardens, combining the fast growth of silver maple with the less brittle wood, less invasive roots, and the beautiful bright ...
Acer negundo, also known as the box elder, boxelder maple, Manitoba maple or ash-leaved maple, is a species of maple native to North America from Canada to Honduras. [3] It is a fast-growing, short-lived tree with opposite, ash-like compound leaves.