Maple

Growth habit

Tree

Perennation

Long-lived perennial

Native distribution

Central China

Location

Conifer Slope

Source of plant

Forestfarm Nursery, Daniel Otis

Description

Small, quite glabrous tree with leaves resembling those of A. tschonoskii but 3-5-lobed, 5-8 cm long, themiddle lobe-tip caudate the others acute to acuminate, sharply double-serrate, the upper side dark green, the underside blue-green, glabrous except for the gray vein-axils; flowers borne in upright many-flowered racemes, greenish yellow; fruit short-stalked, wings wide-angled to nearly horizontal.

USDA Hardiness Zone

6