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Acer circinatum, or vine maple, is a species of maple native to northwestern North America. Vine maple typically grows as a low-elevation coastal tree in temperate areas of high precipitation such as the west coast of Oregon and northern California , as well as the temperate rainforests of Washington and British Columbia . [ 3 ]
Acer campbellii Hook.f. & Thomson ex Hiern – Campbell's maple; Acer chingii Hu; Acer circinatum Pursh – vine maple; Acer confertifolium Merril & Metcalf; Acer duplicatoserratum Hayata; Acer elegantulum Fang & Chiu; Acer erianthum Schwer. Acer fenzelianum Hand.-Mazz. – Fenzl's maple; Acer flabellatum Rehder [12] Acer heptaphlebium Gagnepain
Vine maple (Acer circinatum) Samara of Combretum zeyheri. A samara (/ s ə ˈ m ɑːr ə /, UK also: / ˈ s æ m ər-/) [1] is a winged achene, [2] a type of fruit in which a flattened wing of fibrous, papery tissue develops from the ovary wall. A samara is a simple dry fruit, and is indehiscent (not opening along a seam).
Acer glabrum is a species of maple native to western North America, from southeastern Alaska, British Columbia and western Alberta, east to western Nebraska, and south through Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Colorado to California, Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico.
Field maple Acer campestre, in Ebsdorfergrund-Frauenberg, Hesse, Germany. Aceraceae were recognized as a family of flowering plants also called the maple family.They contain two to four genera, depending upon the circumscription, of some 120 species of trees and shrubs.
Acer floridanum (syn. Acer saccharum subsp. floridanum (Chapm.) Desmarais, Acer barbatum auct. non Michx.), commonly known as the Florida maple and occasionally as the southern sugar maple or hammock maple, is a tree that occurs in mesic and usually calcareous woodlands of the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plain in the United States, from southeastern Virginia in the north, south to central ...
Acer saccharinum, commonly known as silver maple, [3] creek maple, silverleaf maple, [3] soft maple, large maple, [3] water maple, [3] swamp maple, [3] or white maple, [3] is a species of maple native to the eastern and central United States and southeastern Canada.
The largely temperate genera formerly separated in the families Aceraceae (Acer, Dipteronia) and Hippocastanaceae (Aesculus, Billia, Handeliodendron) were included within a more broadly circumscribed Sapindaceae by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. [8] Recent research has confirmed the inclusion of these genera in the Sapindaceae. [4] [5]