Cappadocian Maple
| Habit | tree
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| Height: | ⇕ | 60 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 60. |
| Width: | ⇔ | 50 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 50. |
| Lifespan: | ⌛ | perennial |
| Origin: | ✈ | SW Asia (Turkey, Caucasus, Iran) |
| Bloom: | ❀ | early spring, mid spring, late spring |
| Exposure: | ☼ | sun |
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| Features: | ✓ | deciduous, flowers |
| Minimum Temp: | ☃ | -35°C-31 °F <br />238.15 K <br />428.67 °R <br /> |
| USDA Zones: | 5 to 8 | |
| Sunset Zones: | 3-6, 31-34 |
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Acer cappadocicum (Cappadocian Maple) is a maple native to Asia, from central Turkey (ancient Cappadocia) east along the Caucasus, the Himalaya, to southwestern China.[1][2][3][4][5]
It is a medium-sized deciduous tree growing to 20-30 m tall with a broad, rounded crown. The leaves are opposite, palmately lobed with 5-7 lobes, 6-15 cm across. The leaf stems bleed a milky latex when broken. The flowers are in corymbs of 15-30 together, yellow-green with five petals 3-4 mm long; flowering occurs in early spring. The fruit is a double samara with two winged seeds, the seeds are disc-shaped, strongly flattened, 6-11 mm across and 2-3 mm thick. The wings are 2.5-3 cm long, widely spread, approaching a 180° angle. The bark is greenish-grey, smooth in young trees, becoming shallowly grooved in mature.[1][2][4][5]
ExpandRead about Cappadocian Maple in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Varieties
- 'Rubrum' - Red Coliseum Maple. Leaves are bright red in spring then turn dark green.
There are three varieties, sometimes treated as subspecies:[3][4]
- Acer cappadocicum var. cappadocicum. Turkey, Caucasus, northern Iran.
- Acer cappadocicum var. indicum (Pax) Rehd. (syn. var. cultratum (Wall.) Bean). Himalaya.
- Acer cappadocicum var. sinicum Rehd. Southwestern China.
The closely related Acer lobelii from southern Italy is also treated as a subspecies of A. cappadocicum by some authors.[4] The eastern Asian species Acer amplum, Acer pictum, and Acer truncatum are also very closely related, and often confused with A. cappadocicum in cultivation.[3]
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References
External links
- w:Cappadocian Maple. Some of the material on this page may be from Wikipedia, under the Creative Commons license.
- Cappadocian Maple QR Code (Size 50, 100, 200, 500)
- ↑ Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 Mitchell, A. F. (1974). A Field Guide to the Trees of Britain and Northern Europe. Collins ISBN 0-00-212035-6
- ↑ Jump up to: 2.0 2.1 Mitchell, A. F. (1982). The Trees of Britain and Northern Europe. Collins ISBN 0-00-219037-0
- ↑ Jump up to: 3.0 3.1 3.2 Bean, W. J. (1976). Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles 8th ed., vol. 1. John Murray ISBN 0-7195-1790-7.
- ↑ Jump up to: 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Huxley, A., ed. (1992). New RHS Dictionary of Gardening. Macmillan ISBN 0-333-47494-5.
- ↑ Jump up to: 5.0 5.1 Rushforth, K. (1999). Trees of Britain and Europe. Collins ISBN 0-00-220013-9.
