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Common name: Silver maple, soft maple.
Voucher: Kostadinov 073, (URV) Brief description: A medium-sized to large monoecious tree; the light gray bark separating in large plates. Leaves are simple, opposite, palmately veined, deeply palmately 5-lobed, the lobes with a few sharp teeth or minor lobes. Flowers are greenish yellow or reddish, each cluster usually unisexual; opening in earliest spring on lateral buds. Fruits are are a double samara with one-seeded winged mericarp, falling before the leaves are fully grown. Campus data: Rare on campus. One large cultivated individual encountered. Other images: |