Description ⁴

Aceraceae | sugar maple

Habitat: Rich woods.

Leaves: Palmately lobed, to 5 in long and slightly more across, with five lobes, the three largest with few prominent teeth, heart shaped at base, mid-to dark green above, with hairs in the vein axils beneath, turning yellow to orange or red in autumn.

Bark: Gray-brown, smooth, becoming furrowed and scaly with age.

Flowers: Small, yellow-green, without petals, drooping on slender stalks, in open clusters in spring with the young leaves.

Fruit: with nearly parallel wings, to 1 in long.

Coombes, A. J. (1992). Trees. New York: Dorling Kindersley.

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