What do maple leaves look like? The latest answer is here

The maple tree is a common name for a type of maple, a tall tree of the genus Acer in the family Aceraceae, with brilliant colors and distinctive forms. In China, people long ago recognized the ornamental value of the red leaves of maples, and writers and scholars through the ages favored maple leaves, with poems and prose praising and depicting them appearing frequently. Now let us take a look at what maple leaves look like!

What do maple leaves look like?

Maple leaves look like palms. Among the many red-leaf tree species in the world, the autumn leaves of the maple are unique. The tree has a graceful form and elegant leaves. In autumn the leaves gradually turn red or yellow, and there are also green and purple ones. They can be used as shade trees, street trees, or companion trees in landscape gardens. When combined with other autumn-color-leaf trees or evergreen trees, they set each other off and enhance the beauty of the autumn scenery's colors.

When do maple leaves turn red?

Maple leaves turn red in autumn. Maple leaves turn red in autumn because falling temperatures cause the green pigment in the leaves to turn red. In northern China, autumn runs from August to October, and true autumn generally does not arrive until after September, so maple leaves generally do not turn red until around September and October. In southern China, the cold comes later, so the time when maple leaves turn red is relatively later.

What varieties of maple are there?

1. Trident maple (Acer truncatum): a deciduous tree, 8-10 m tall, flowering in April, fruiting in August, produced in Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, northern Jiangsu (areas north of Xuzhou), Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu and other places.

2. Japanese maple (Acer palmatum): a small deciduous tree, bark dark gray, flowering in May, fruiting in September, produced in Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hunan, Hubei, Anhui, Jiangxi, Guizhou and other places, and also distributed in Korea and Japan.

3. Amur maple (Acer ginnala): a deciduous shrub or small tree, 5-6 m tall, flowering in May, fruiting in October, produced in Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Shanxi, Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Mongolia and other places.

4. Paperbark maple (Acer griseum): a deciduous tree, 10-20 m tall, flowering in April, fruiting in September, produced in southwestern Henan, southern Shaanxi, southeastern Gansu, western Hubei, eastern Sichuan and other places.

5. Henry's maple (Acer henryi): a deciduous tree, about 10 m tall, flowering in April, fruiting in September, produced in southern Shanxi, Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Guizhou and other places.

6. Evergreen maple (Acer oblongum): an evergreen tree, usually 10 m tall, flowering in April, fruiting in August-September, produced in southern Shaanxi, western Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places, and also distributed in Nepal, Sikkim, northern India and Myanmar.