Vermont maple
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The Vermont maple ( Acer spicatum ) is a large shrub or small tree belonging to the maple genus in the soap tree family (Sapindaceae). The natural range is in Canada and the USA.
description
The Vermont maple is a 10 meter high, and therefore small tree or shrub with gray hairy shoots. The leaves are three or five lobes, 6 to 12 inches wide, often longer than wide with a heart-shaped base. The lobes are egg-shaped and pointed, the leaf margin is irregularly double-serrated. The upper side of the leaf is light green and often wrinkled, the underside is dull green and at least initially hairy. The petiole is 4 to 6 inches long. The leaves turn yellow to orange-red in autumn.
The greenish yellow flowers are small and arranged in 8 to 14 centimeters long, upright, cylindrical spikes . The petals are long, narrow and white, the ovary is hairy. The species blooms in May after the leaves have emerged.
The fruits are almost bare when ripe and 1.5 to 2 centimeters long. The wing is spread approximately at right angles.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 26.
Distribution and ecology
The distribution area is in the east from Canada to Saskatchewan and in the northeast, southeast and in the middle of the USA. The species grows in cool, moist forests on moderately nutrient-rich, fresh to moist, permeable, acidic to neutral, sandy-humic or gritty-humic soils in shady, cool to cold locations. The species is frost hardy, but avoids chalky soils.
Systematics and research history
The Vermont maple ( Acer spicatum ) is a kind of the genus of maple ( Acer ) in the family of soap tree plants (Sapindaceae). There it is assigned to the Parviflora section , Caudata series . It was first described in 1786 by Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck in the Encyclopedie Methodique. Botanique ... Paris .
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
- ↑ German name according to Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , p. 82
- ↑ a b c Roloff et al .: Flora of the Woods , p. 82
- ↑ Acer spicatum at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
- ↑ Acer spicatum. In: Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). United States Department of Agriculture, accessed December 29, 2011 .
