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. |