What are the most common types of maple trees?
1, China Red Maple
China Red Maple for the maple family chicken maple varieties, small trees, trees up to 9 meters high. It has smooth and slender branches, 5-7-lobed single leaves, palmately alternate, long elliptic to lanceolate leaves, leaf margins are heavily serrated, young branches, petioles, flower stalks are red. Chinese red maple is a very beautiful and precious foliage species, its beautiful leaf shape, red bright and long-lasting, branching order neat, distinct, staggered, beautiful tree, it is suitable to be arranged in the center of the lawn, before and after the tall buildings, corners, etc., the red leaves and green trees reflect each other. It can also be potted into the root, leaning against the stone, cliffs, dry and other styles, elegant and chic.
2, Japanese red maple
Japanese maple horticultural varieties into the domestic time is not long, the color is not only red, there are yellow, purple, pink and so on. But the beginning of that time the variety is "red dancing girl" a kind of red leaf varieties.
Red Dancer's spring color is very bright, bright red, contrasting with the darker color of the native red maple, and then by the domestic nurseries, began to propagate a large number. At that time, we only know that this species from Japan, in order to distinguish between the native red maple, they are called "Japanese red maple", which is "Japanese red maple" name came from.
Japanese red maple is produced in Japan's red chicken maple of the common name, China's introduction of cultivation of the main varieties of blood red chicken maple. Its plant height is generally 5 to 7 meters, the crown is full and spreading, the branches are slender and thin, the bark is red and brown. The new leaves that grow in the spring are brightly colored and beautiful, with bright red and bright yellow.
Japanese red maple in the out of orangutan, orangutan Nomura, three seasons of red and orange dream in the garden landscape is more common, and different colors, different kinds of plants with each other, to create a rich and beautiful landscape, but also can be used in the yard, garden, potted plants category.
3, American red maple
American red maple is a dicotyledonous plant family, maple family several species of plant species of the common name. It is a large deciduous tree. Fast growing, adult tall trees 12-18 meters, crown 12 meters, can adapt to a wide range of soil types to grow. It blooms in spring with red flowers. Because of its fall color eye-catching, neat crown, is widely used in parks, neighborhoods, street planting, both garden landscaping and street trees, loved by the people, is one of the ideal rare species of green urban gardens, known as the king of street trees, street trees in the luxury. The tree grows fast and is the fastest growing of all red maple varieties.
In addition to the very good fall color performance, ornamental very high, the American red maple also has the advantage of its transplant survival rate is very high, strong growth potential, with strong resistance, can adapt to the special environment of the street, the main trunk is straight, the crown neat, pruning-resistant, late leaf fall and more neatly.
4, sugar maple
Sugar maple is a tall deciduous tree species native to North America, up to 45 meters, widely distributed in Canada from Nova Scotia to Ontario and other places. The current year's branches are green, perennial branches are yellow-brown, autumn maple leaf color is extremely beautiful, with the degradation of chlorophyll and low temperature and light changes catalyzed by anthocyanins, so that the leaves show uneven changes from bright yellow to orange to deep orange. Blooming in early spring, it is very rich in nectar and is an excellent nectar plant. It grows rapidly, has a broad canopy, and provides good shade in summer, so it can be used as a street tree or garden tree for greening cities or factories and mines. Sugar maple is easy to plant and transplant, grows fast, and has a beautiful color in the fall, making it a very pleasing street tree and garden tree.
5, chicken claw maple
Chicken claw maple, also known as chicken claw maple, is the maple family, the genus deciduous small trees. The bark is dark gray. Branchlets thin; annual branches purple or light purple-green; perennial branches grayish purple or dark purple. Chicken claw maple can be planted as a sidewalk and ornamental trees, is a better "four seasons" greening species, but also a valuable ornamental native species in the garden.
Spring chicken maple leaf color yellow with green, peculiar leaves in the sunlight, whether it is red willow green, or pink wall, can be reflected properly.
Summer chicken claw maple becomes dense, tree shape from the spring sparse branch weak to shade, leaf color to dark green, showing a cold color system characteristics, to the hot summer brought cool. But because the chicken claw maple tree volume is not tall, it is difficult to form a good shade, while the leaf color is too dense, can only become a scene or background in the space.
Autumn is the best season for chicken claw maple ornamental, "Flowers" cloud: "maple leaves after the autumn frost, mixed shield evergreen trees, and green leaves against the bright colors. Autumn color full of forests, there are paving brocade column rust." In the ornamental period on the line of sight has a strong focusing effect, chicken maple and red maple red, feather maple bright yellow, and the base color green and odd color contrast or reconciliation, can create a special spatial effect.
Entering the winter, chicken claw maple leaves all fall light, part of the plant branches remain in the withered leaves and fruits, withered bare branches and trunks are brown, zigzagging ancient surface contours, such as attaching layers of snow, the outline of the branches are set off more ethereal and colorful.
6, tea maple
Tea maple is maple, maple plants, deciduous shrubs or small trees, up to 6 meters high. Tea maple trunk straight, flowers have fragrance, summer fruit wings red beautiful, autumn leaves bright red, before the maturity of the fins is also red, is a better fall foliage species, but also a good garden ornamental species, suitable for solitary planting, column planting, group planting, or pruning into hedges and shaping trees. Is commonly used in recent years in the garden design of tree species, mostly as a landscape tree or piece of planting, to multi-pole clumps of trees on the tree shape, tree shape majestic momentum, has a good ornamental. In recent years, the price is also high year by year, this tree transplantation of the arousal period is slow, live not good when it looks withered, restore the growth, the effect can be considerable.
The tea-striped maple is mainly distributed in China Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Shanxi, Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu. Mongolia, eastern Siberia in Russia, North Korea and Japan are also distributed.