Acer crataegifolium / Urikaede


Wild plants in and around Shimane 島根とその周辺の野生植物
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Acer crataegifolium / Urikaede ウリカエデ
Bloom time: April-May

Family:	Aceraceae / Kaedeka		Species in the genus Acer:
			Acer carpinifolium / Chidorinoki Acer crataegifolium / Urikaede Acer japonicum / Hauchiwakaede Acer micranthum / Kominekaede Acer_mono_var._macroratum_f._heterophyllum / Itayakaede Acer palmatum / Irohamomiji Acer rufinerve / Urihadakaede
		Acer crataegifolium / Urikaede ウリカエデ

Acer crataegifolium, a deciduous shrub or small tree with green barks and vertical black stripes, grows on ridges, close slopes, or along trails in mountainous regions. Branches, the young of which are green to dark red-purple, with no hairs. Leaves are opposite, 4-8cm long, 3-5cm wide, cleft not or shallowly cut in three or occasionally five, tips pointed in a tail way, bases are shallow-heart-shaped, with margins with uneven double serrations. Dioecious: Flowers, about 10 in number, each 8mm in diameter, light yellow, bloom in 3-5cm-long racemes with red-brown frizzled hairs. Bloom time: April-May.

▲SPRING #1