Trees of Italy - Acer Platanoides, Acer Pseudoplatanus, Bay Laurel, Acer Campestre, Ulmus Canescens, Abies Nebrodensis, Alnus Cordata (Paperback)

Chapters: Acer Platanoides, Acer Pseudoplatanus, Bay Laurel, Acer Campestre, Ulmus Canescens, Abies Nebrodensis, Alnus Cordata, Grana Double Tree. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Acer platanoides (Norway Maple) is a species of maple native to eastern and central Europe and southwest Asia, from France east to Russia, north to southern Scandinavia and southeast to northern Iran. It is a deciduous tree growing to 2030 m tall with a trunk up to 1.5 m diameter, and a broad, rounded crown. The bark is grey-brown and shallowly grooved; unlike many other maples, mature trees do not tend to develop a shaggy bark. The shoots are green at first, soon becoming pale brown; the winter buds are shiny red-brown. The leaves are opposite, palmately lobed with five lobes, 714 cm long and 820 cm (rarely 25 cm) across; the lobes each bear one to three side teeth, and an otherwise smooth margin. The leaf petiole is 820 cm long, and secretes a milky juice when broken. The autumn colour is usually yellow, occasionally orange-red. The flowers are in corymbs of 1530 together, yellow to yellow-green with five sepals and five petals 34 mm long; flowering occurs in early spring before the new leaves emerge. The fruit is a double samara with two winged seeds; the seeds are disc-shaped, strongly flattened, 1015 mm across and 3 mm thick. The wings are 35 cm long, widely spread, approaching a 180 angle. It typically produces a large quantity of viable seeds. It is not particularly a long-lived tree, with a maximum age of around 250 years. Norway Maple bark.Norway Maple is a member (and is the type species) of the section Platanoidea Pax, characterised by flattened, disc-shaped seeds and the shoots and leaves containing milky sap. Other related species in this section include ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=178345