Henry Maple

Description

Small tree or large shrub reaching 30' in height and width; young shoots hairy and green, becoming smooth and olive-green when mature. Leaves trifoliate, leaflets elliptical, often basally oblique, the laterals often nearly sessile to subsessile; fall color an excellent yellow and red. Flowers almost white, dioecious, sessile, borne on slender, hairy spikes produced before the leaves, the petals shed very earlyduring anthesis.