Small-flowered maple
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The small-flowered maple ( Acer micranthum ) is a shrub or small tree belonging to the maple genus in the soap tree family (Sapindaceae). The natural range is in Japan.
description
The small-flowered maple is an 8 meter high, heavily branched shrub or tree with purpledish to green, slightly white striped bark and thin, bare and reddish shoots. The leaves are deep five-lobed, rarely seven-lobed with long pointed lobes and a serrated edge. Both sides of the leaf are bare, but the underside may have beards. The petiole is 2 to 4 inches long. The leaves turn red to orange-yellow in autumn, rarely golden-yellow. The yellowish green, very small flowers are in 3 to 5 centimeters long, terminal racemes . They bloom in May. The fruits are 1 to 2 inches long. The wing is spread horizontally or at an obtuse angle.
Distribution and ecology
The distribution area is on the Japanese islands of Honshū , Kyushu and Shikoku . The species grows in cool, moist forests, on fresh to moist, well-drained, moderately nutrient-rich, acidic to neutral, sandy or gravelly humus soils in sunny to light-shady locations. The species is usually frost hardy.
Systematics and research history
The Small-maple ( Acer micranthum ) is a kind of the genus of maple ( Acer ) in the family of soap tree plants (Sapindaceae). There he is assigned to the Macrantha section . It was first described in 1845 by Philipp Franz von Siebold and Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini in the treatises of the Mathematical-Physical Class of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Munich .
use
The species is rarely used as an ornamental wood because of its impressive autumn colors .
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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. 72-73.
Individual evidence
- ↑ German name after Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , p. 72.
- ↑ a b c Roloff et al .: Flora of the Woods , pp. 72–73.
- ↑ a b Acer micranthum. In: Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). United States Department of Agriculture, accessed December 29, 2011 .