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Garden maple

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Garden Maple
Garden Maple
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Division:Magnoliophyta
Class:Magnoliopsida
Order:Sapindales
Family:Aceraceae
Genus:Acer
Species:micranthum
Binomial name
Acer micranthum Siebold & Zuccarini

The Garden Maple (Acer micranthum) is a small, often shrubby maple to 8-10 m tall, native to Japan. It has lobed, toothed leaves with five palmate lobes, similar to Redvein Maple (Acer rufinerve) and Amur Maple (Acer ginnala). It is one of many small maples that are used in temperate-zone landscaping, noted for the red bark on shoots up to a year old, and brilliant red fall color. The young leaves in spring also emerge red.

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External links

http://homepage2.nifty.com/chigyoraku/acerph20.html
http://www.esveld.nl/htmldia/a/acmicr.htm
http://www.inh.co.jp/~hayasida/E-repo5.html

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