Striped Maple

Description

Large shrub or small, many-branched tree to 10 m in height and width; young stems green striped with white, the mature bark less conspicuously striped. Leaves almost triangular-ovate, bases cordate, about 7cm long and wide, quite often 3-lobed or almost unlobed, green, highly variable; lobes small,short-acuminate, doubly serrate, the undersides of juvenile leaves sometimes with brown hairs. Flowers yellow, borne on pendulous racemes, about 5-8 cm long. Fall color yellow. Hybridizes freely with related taxa; seedlings often highly variable and vegetative propagation is recommended.