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| − | Acer saccharinum, Linn. (A. dasycarpum, Ehrh. A. eriocarpum, Michx.). White or Silver Maple. Fig. 96. Large tree, 120 ft.: lvs. deeply 5-lobed to 5-cleft, 4-6 in. long, green above, silvery white beneath; lobes deeply and doubly serrate: fls. greenish yellow, apetalous: fr. pubescent when young. E. N. Amer. S.S. 2:93. G.C. II. 1:37. Em. 556. H.T. 332. F.E.32:443 (habit); 29:983 (habit).—Ornamental tree, with wide-spreading, slender branches, growing best in rich and moist soil, but succeeds almost anywhere. Lvs. turn clear yellow in fall. Many garden forms: Var. Wieri, Schwerin (var. WiJkri lacinialum, Hort.). Branches pendulous: lvs. deeply cleft, with dissected lobes.—A graceful variety, remarkable for its drooping branches and finely divided foliage. M.D.G. 1903:628 (habit). Var. heterophyllum, Pax (var. heterophyllum laciniatum, Hort.). Upright: lvs. deeply and unequally divided, with narrow lobes.
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| − | Var. tripartitum, Pax. Upright: lvs. 3-parted. Var. lutescens, Spaeth. Lvs. yellow, bronze-colored when unfolding. Var. 41bo-variegatum, Spaeth (var.
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| − | Juhlkei, Hort.). Lvs. spotted with white or rosy pink. Var.crispum,
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| − | Schwerin. Lvs. deeply (cut and crimped.-Linnaeus evidently supposed this
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| − | species to be the sugar maple, and named it accordingly. He did not know the true sugar maple.
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