Montpellier Maple

Description

A large, dense shrub or small, densely branched tree, semi-evergreen to deciduous, 6-12 m tall with a rounded crown and glabrous, reddish-brown to gray branches. Leaves extremely variable, coriaceous, 3-lobed, obtuse, 3-5 cm across, dark green and shining above, glaucous beneath, turning yellow in fall. Flowers yellow-green, held in pendulous corymbs in April and May.