Manchurian maple

Manchurian maple
	Manchurian maple ( Acer mandshuricum )
Systematics
	Eurosiden II
Order :	Sapindales (Sapindales)
Family :	Soap tree family (Sapindaceae)
Subfamily :	Horse chestnut family (Hippocastanoideae)
Genre :	Maples ( Acer )
Type :	Manchurian maple
Scientific name
	Acer mandshuricum
	Maxim.

The Manchurian maple ( Acer mandshuricum ) is a large shrub or small tree belonging to the maple genus in the soap tree family (Sapindaceae). The natural range is in China , Korea and eastern Russia .

description

leaves

blossoms

The Manchurian maple is a shrub or tree up to 10 meters high with smooth, gray bark and hairless shoots. The leaves are threefold, the paper-like leaves are 5 to 10 centimeters long, oblong-elliptical to oblong-egg-shaped, pointed with a sawn edge. The terminal leaflet is stalked 5 to 10 millimeters long, the lateral leaflets are sessile or have stalks about 2 millimeters long. The top is dark green, the underside blue-green and hairless except for the midrib. The petiole is 6 to 10 inches long and red. The leaves sprout very early and turn red in autumn. The greenish yellow, unisexual, five-fold flowers are in groups of three. They bloom in June. The fruits are 3 to 3.5 inches long, thick and hairless. The wing is spread obtuse or at right angles. The yellowish brown fruits ripen in September. The number of chromosomes is . ${\ displaystyle 2n = 26}$

Distribution and ecology

The distribution area is in the Chinese provinces of Gansu , Heilongjiang , Jilin , Liaoning and Shaanxi , in Korea and in the Amur area in eastern Russia. The Manchurian maple grows at an altitude of 500 to 2300 meters in species-rich forests, on fresh to moist, acidic to neutral, sandy-humic to loamy-humic soils in light to partially shaded locations. It is only moderately frost hardy.

Systematics and research history

The Manchurian maple ( Acer mandshuricum ) is a kind of the genus of maple ( Acer ) in the family of soap tree plants (Sapindaceae). There he is assigned to the section Trifoliata Series Mandshurica . It was first described in 1867 by Karl Johann Maximowicz in the Bulletin de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg .

use

The species is rarely used as an ornamental wood because of its impressive autumn colors .

proof

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 , p. 72.
Wu Zheng-yi, Peter H. Raven, Deyuan Hong (Eds.): Flora of China . Volume 11: Oxalidaceae through Aceraceae . Science Press / Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing / St. Louis 2008, ISBN 978-1-930723-73-3 , pp. 552 (English).

Individual evidence

↑ German name after Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , p. 72
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , p. 72
↑ ^a ^b Acer mandshuricum . In: Wu Zheng-yi, Peter H. Raven, Deyuan Hong (Eds.): Flora of China . Volume 11: Oxalidaceae through Aceraceae . Science Press / Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing / St. Louis 2008, ISBN 978-1-930723-73-3 , pp. 552 (English).
↑ Acer mandshuricum. In: Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). United States Department of Agriculture, accessed December 29, 2011 .

Web links

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[deutsch-1] German name after Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , p. 72

[FdG-2] Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , p. 72

[FoC-3] Acer mandshuricum . In: Wu Zheng-yi, Peter H. Raven, Deyuan Hong (Eds.): Flora of China . Volume 11: Oxalidaceae through Aceraceae . Science Press / Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing / St. Louis 2008, ISBN 978-1-930723-73-3 , pp. 552 (English).

[GRIN-4] Acer mandshuricum. In: Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). United States Department of Agriculture, accessed December 29, 2011 .