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Acer grandidentatum, commonly called bigtooth maple or western sugar maple, [2] [3] is a species of maple native to interior western North America. It occurs in scattered populations from western Montana to central Texas in the United States and south to Coahuila in northern Mexico .
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
Some maple wood has a highly decorative wood grain, known as flame maple, quilt maple, birdseye maple and burl wood. This condition occurs randomly in individual trees of several species and often cannot be detected until the wood has been sawn, though it is sometimes visible in the standing tree as a rippled pattern in the bark.
Aceraceae: maple family; Acer: maples; Acer floridanum: Florida maple Aceraceae (maple family) Yes IUCN (LC) 311 Acer grandidentatum: bigtooth maple Aceraceae (maple family) Yes Yes IUCN (LC) 322 Acer leucoderme: chalk maple Aceraceae (maple family) Yes IUCN (LC) 323 Acer negundo: boxelder Aceraceae (maple family) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ...
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.
The sugar maple is one of the most important Canadian trees, being, with the black maple, the major source of sap for making maple syrup. [23] Other maple species can be used as a sap source for maple syrup, but some have lower sugar content and/or produce more cloudy syrup than these two. [ 23 ]
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]
Bridgeville, California (population 25) was the first town to be sold on eBay in 2002, and has been up for sale three times since. [1] In January 2003, Thatch Cay, the last privately held and undeveloped U.S. Virgin Island, was listed for auction by Idealight International. The minimum bid was US$3 million and the sale closed January 16, 2003. [2]