Acer capillipes

Red Snakeskin Maple (Acer capillipes )

The Red Snakeskin Maple (Acer capillipes ), also Rotstieliger snakeskin maple is a tree or large shrub species from the genus of maples ( Acer). These will be made today to the family of Soapberry ( Sapindaceae ), formed earlier but my own family maple family ( Aceraceae ). The Red Snake Skin Maple is endemic to the Japanese islands of Honshu and Shikoku. In Japanese it is called Hosoe - kaede (细枝 枫) or Ashibosouri no ki (アシボソ ウリノキ).

Description

There is an up to 15 meters, in exceptional cases, 20 to 25 feet tall expectant tree. The tree crown is broad vase- shaped. The bark is brown green, from the second year, with narrow white stripes. The shoots are bright red, bald and frosted.

The leaves are stalked three to eight inches long with red petiole. The leaf base is weak heart-shaped. The leaf blade is eight to 15 inches long and seven to twelve inches wide, approximately pentagonal in outline and three-lobed, with the laterally projecting are much shorter than the average, long moved out and pointed lobes. The leaf margin double serrate. The Spreitenoberseite is dark green, the lower surface pale green and hairless. The leaf buds are reddish in color. The autumn color is bright yellow orange.

The plants are dioecious, the flowers are yellowish to greenish yellow, eight millimeters wide, 20 to 50 in long, hanging racemes. Each flower has five sepals and five petals. Male flowers contain eight stamens and a rudimentary gynoecium. Female flowers contain rudimentary stamens, the ovary may be hairy or bald. Flowering time is May.

The fruits are schizocarps with wide-angle, spread, 1.5 to two centimeters long wings.

Dissemination

The Red Snake Skin maple native to Japan on Honshu and Shikoku. The sites are located at altitudes of 600-1300 meters in deciduous forests. It prefers evenly fresh to moist, nutrient-rich soils without waterlogging, the pH is in the acidic range.

System

The Red Snake Skin maple was described in 1867 by Maximowicz, 1892, Charles Sprague Sargent him into Arnold Arboretum. In the section Macrantha these maple stands together with related species such as the David's Maple, Maple Weißdornblättrigen, Korean snakeskin maple or striped maple.