Balkan maple
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The Balkan maple ( Acer hyrcanum ) is a small tree or shrub belonging to the maple genus in the soap tree family (Sapindaceae). The distribution area is on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe and West Asia.
description
The Balkan maple is a tree or multi-stemmed shrub up to 2 meters high with dark gray-brown bark and initially hairy shoots. The parchment-like leaves are five-lobed, very variable and 3 to 10 centimeters wide. The upper lobes are cut off almost at right angles, the lower ones are small and ovoid. The leaf margin is roughly serrated. The upper side of the leaf is green, the underside bluish green. The petiole is 10 centimeters long. In autumn the leaves turn yellow to red.
The yellowish green flowers are arranged in short, bare umbels. They appear with the leaves in May.
The fruits are 3 inches long, egg-shaped, glabrous with erect to sickle-shaped wings.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 26.
Distribution and ecology
The distribution area is on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe, you can also find them in Western Asia. There it grows in dry forests and steppes, on moderately dry to fresh, slightly acidic to alkaline, nutrient-rich, sandy-loamy to sandy soils in sunny to light-shady locations. The species loves warmth and is usually frost hardy.
Systematics and research history
The Balkan maple ( Acer hyrcanum ) is a kind of the genus of maple ( Acer ) in the family of soap tree plants (Sapindaceae). It was first described in 1838 by Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer and Carl Anton von Meyer in the Index Seminum, quae Hortus Botanicus Imperialis Petropolitanus per Mutua Commutatione offer. Accedunt Animadversiones Botanicae Nonnullae .
use
The species is very rarely used as an ornamental wood because of its impressive autumn colors .
literature
- Andreas Roloff , Andreas Bärtels: Flora of the woods. Purpose, properties and use. With a winter key from Bernd Schulz. 3rd, corrected edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 2008, ISBN 978-3-8001-5614-6 , pp. 70-71.
Individual evidence
- ^ German names according to Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , p. 70
- ↑ a b c d Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , pp. 70–71
- ↑ Acer hyrcanum at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
- ↑ a b Acer hyrcanum. In: Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). United States Department of Agriculture, accessed December 29, 2011 .
