Acer carpinifolium

Hainbuchenblättriger maple (Acer carpinifolium )

The Hainbuchenblättrige maple (Acer carpinifolium ) is a species of the genus maples ( Acer). These will be made today to the family of Soapberry ( Sapindaceae ), formed earlier but his own family the maple family ( Aceraceae ). The Japanese name is Chidori no ki (Japanese千鳥 の 木, dt "Tree of Plover " ), according to the shape of the fruits, or Yamashiba kaede (山 柴 枫).

Description

There is an up to ten feet tall expectant tree, in Central Europe, he achieved after 20 years, about four to five meters. The shoots are bare, reddish brown when they emerge, later, the bark is gray to dark gray. The leaves are unlobed, oblong to obovate, eight to 13 centimeters long and three to seven inches wide. The leaf margin is sharply doubly serrate, the leaf base rounded to slightly heart-shaped. The stem is one to two inches long. The underside of the leaves is hairy in bud and brighter green color than the top. From the midrib branches 18 to 25 pair from prominent lateral nerves and form a distinctive, unusual for maple leaves feature. The autumn color is yellow-brown.

The flowers are greenish yellow, dioecious, about an inch wide, in bare grapes. The male flowers are about ten to 15, the female inflorescences consist of only five to ten flowers. There are usually four, sometimes five sepals and petals present. In the male flowers the petals are reduced or absent, they usually contain four (six to ten) stamens. The female flowers contain, besides the gynoecium still reduced, sterile stamens ( staminodes ). It blooms in May, together with the foliation.

The fruits are fruits gap with spread wings at right angles, which are bent inwardly.

Dissemination

The distribution area is in Japan on Honshu ( western part), Shikoku and Kyushu. Altitudes from 200 to 1500 meters are populated. The sites are located in deciduous forests, usually on well-supplied with water bodies, such as along streams.