Siebold's Japanese maple

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Siebold's Japanese maple
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Siebold's Japanese maple ( Acer Sieboldianum )

Systematics
Eurosiden II
Order : Sapindales (Sapindales)
Family : Soap tree family (Sapindaceae)
Subfamily : Horse chestnut family (Hippocastanoideae)
Genre : Maples ( Acer )
Type : Siebold's Japanese maple
Scientific name
Acer Sieboldianum
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Siebold's Japanese maple ( Acer Sieboldianum ) is a large shrub or small tree from the maple genus in the soap tree family (Sapindaceae). The natural range is in Japan.

description

leaves

Siebold's Japanese maple is a 10 meter high, upright tree or shrub with thin branches and densely whitish hairy, later often balding shoots. The leaves are seven to eleven lobed, 6 to 9 centimeters wide, with a rounded outline and a heart-shaped to almost truncated base. The blade is cut to the middle of the leaf or deeper. The lobes are elongated-ovate and pointed, the leaf margin is sharply double serrated. The nerves on the underside of the leaf are hairy. The petiole is 2.5 to 4 inches long, initially softly hairy, later often glabrous. The leaves turn copper-red to shiny dark red in autumn. The yellowish flowers are small and arranged in umbels on long stems. The ovary and calyx are hairy on the outside. The species blooms in May. The fruits are glabrous or slightly hairy and 1.5 to 2 inches long. The wing is spread at an obtuse angle to almost horizontally.

Distribution and ecology

The distribution area is in Japan on the islands of Hokkaidō , Kyushu , Honshū and Shikoku . The species grows in cool, moist forests on moderately nutrient-rich, fresh to moist, well-drained, acidic to neutral, sandy-humic or gritty-humic soils in sunny to light-shady locations. The species is mostly frost hardy but avoids chalky soils.

Systematics and research history

Acer Sieboldianum ( Acer sieboldianum ) is a kind of the genus of maple ( Acer ) in the family of soap tree plants (Sapindaceae). There he is the section Palmata , serial Palmata assigned. It was first described in 1865 by Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel in the Annales Musei Botanici Lugduno-Batavi. Amsterdam .

use

The species is rarely used as an ornamental wood because of its unusual 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. 82.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German name according to Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , p. 82
  2. ↑ a b c Roloff et al .: Flora of the Woods , p. 82
  3. ↑ a b Acer Sieboldianum. In: Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). United States Department of Agriculture, accessed December 29, 2011 .

Web links

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