Tatar Maple
| Habit | tree
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| Height: | ⇕ | 35 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 35. |
| Width: | ⇔ | 25 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 25. |
| Lifespan: | ⌛ | perennial |
| Bloom: | ❀ | early spring, mid spring, late spring |
| Exposure: | ☼ | sun |
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| Features: | ✓ | deciduous |
| Minimum Temp: | ☃ | -45°C-49 °F <br />228.15 K <br />410.67 °R <br /> |
| USDA Zones: | 4 to 8 | |
| Sunset Zones: | 1-6, 14-16, 34-43 |
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Acer tataricum (Tatar Maple or Tatarian Maple) is a species of maple native to central and southeastern Europe and southwestern Asia, from Austria east to southwestern Russia and the Caucasus, and south to Turkey. The species is named after the Tatar peoples of southern Russia; the tree's name is similarly commonly also spelled "Tartar" in English.[1][2]
It is a deciduous spreading shrub or small tree growing to 4-12 m tall, with a short trunk up to 20-50 cm diameter and slender branches. The bark is thin, pale brown, and smooth at first but becoming shallowly fissured on old plants. The leaves are opposite and simple, broadly ovate, 4.5-10 cm long and 3-7 cm broad, unlobed or with three or five shallow lobes, and matt green above; the leaf margin is coarsely and irregularly toothed; the leaf petiole is slender, often pink-tinged, 2-5 cm long. The flowers are whitish-green, 5-8 mm diameter, produced in spreading panicles in spring as the leaves open. The fruit is a paired reddish samara, 10-12 mm long with a 2-3 cm wing, maturing in late summer to early autumn.[1][2]
It is related to Acer ginnala (Amur Maple) from northeastern Asia; this is treated as a subspecies of Tatar Maple (Acer tataricum subsp. ginnala) by some botanists. They differ conspicuously in the glossy, deeply lobed leaves of A. ginnala, compared to the matt, unlobed or only shallowly lobed leaves of A. tataricum.[1]
Tatar Maple is occasionally grown as an ornamental plant in gardens throughout Europe and also in North America. In Russia, it is valued in farmland shelterbelts.[2] It is locally naturalised in eastern North America.[1][3]
Read about Tatar Maple in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Acer tataricum, Linn. Shrub or small tree, 20 ft.: lvs. roundish oval or oblong, cordate, sometimes slightly lobed, 2-4 in. long, doubly serrate, nearly glabrous: fls. in long-peduncled panicleSj white: wings of fr. nearly upright or slightly spreading, bright red in summer. S.E. Eu., Orient.—Round-headed small tree, growing best in somewhat moist soil.
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- w:Tatar Maple. Some of the material on this page may be from Wikipedia, under the Creative Commons license.
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Rushforth, K. (1999). Trees of Britain and Europe. Collins ISBN 0-00-220013-9.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Ecosystema: Acer tataricum (in Russian; google translation)
- ↑ USDA Plant Profile: Acer tataricum
