![]() ![]() Vine maple flourishs as an understory tree in moist woods with dappled shade and along stream banks. Home gardeners can prune the lower stems to improve the over-all appearance as desired. Trunks tend to be thin and crooked, and greenish in color when they are young, but age to reddish-brown. While it often resembles a shrub in the forest, with multiple stems sprouting the base of the plant, vine maple forms a small erect tree. The foliage is borne on twisted, spreading limbs (hence the term vine). Flowers are small, reddish or purple, and morph into ¾” to 1.5” long winged seed pods spread out like other maples in a ‘V’ shape arrangement. In the fall the aging leaves turn a beautiful red and gold until they are dropped. When the young leaves first appear in the spring they are red and hairy, but soon turn yellowish green on top with a pale green and downy underside. They range in size from 2.5" to 4.5” in width, and have toothed margins. Leaves have 7 to 9 lobes and are almost circular. You can only recognize the flowers only when you are close by.Description Considered to be one of the best native trees for the home landscape, and an important part of the Northwest forest, vine maple is widely enjoyed for its rugged growth habit, interesting bark coloration, and beautiful fall leaf color. Italian maple trees bloom into monoecious yellowish-green flowers that stand in cymes. They produce inconspicuous yellowish flowers that spread along a raceme. ![]() Unlike many other maple species, vine-leaf maple blooms after the leaf shoots. The main flower is usually bell-shaped and yellowish-greenish in color. Striped maple blooms into unique flowers that sprout at the same time with leaves. The flowers are unisexual and hermaphrodite, and both form upright, umbelliferous panicles. Norway maple trees have greenish-yellow flowers that emerge long before the foliage in clusters of 10 to 30 buds, making a whole set about two inches wide. The flowers pack a lot of nectar and hang down in panicles about 10 centimeters long. Sycamore maple trees produce very small hermaphroditic flowers. Although the flowers are relatively small, they are stunningly beautiful when viewed up close. Male flowers are staminate, while their female counterparts are predominantly pistillate. Silver maple trees typically bloom between February and March, producing greenish-yellow (male) or red flowers (female). Red maples will produce only female or only male flowers, and the flowers emerge before the leaf shoots. As the name suggests, the trees bloom into strikingly red flowers that are usually pedunculated. Unlike other species, the red maple boasts large, showy flowers. The flowers are monoecious and develop into two-winged nutlets arranged at right angles. Consequently, this forms a rounded cone resembling lilac flower clusters. Unlike many maple species where the flowers emerge as clusters, bigleaf maple flowers pullulate along panicles about 5 inches long. Bigleaf maple flowersīigleaf maple trees bloom into the light green to yellow flowers. The female flowers are striking yellowish, long-hanging grapes, while their male counterparts are red and stand on cymes – a flat-topped inflorescence.Īlthough the flowers are different in color and appearance, they occur in the same plant, meaning they are dioecious. Boxelder maple flowersīoxelder maple trees usually bloom between March and April before budding. Vine maple flowers morph into red-winged fruits, which are eaten by wild birds and mammals. It may be worth noting that these flowers appear to be reddish from a distance because the bud leaves are red. Vine maple trees produce small, greenish flowers that hang out with up to 25 individual blooms in umbels. Japanese maple flowers’ actual petals are at the end of the longish stems. The red blooms are monoecious and hang on corymbs, blending well with the foliage. The Japanese maple typically blooms in may, producing red, fragrant flowers. The panicles can stand upright or slightly protrude outwards.įield maple flowers have a high nectar content. The flowers are usually hermaphrodite (unisexual) and appear together with the leaves. Field maple flowersįield maple flowers are yellowish-green corymbs, where about 10 to 25 flowers are arranged in short panicles. Here is a selection of maple tree flowers: 1. Surprisingly, both male and female blooms can be found on the same tree, a condition known as monoecious. Generally, maple buds show up in spring and are either male or female. They emerge as stalks off of the terminal branch end, where the stalks feature petals at the base and around the flower at the head of the bud. Typically, the flowers resemble lilies in shape, albeit much smaller. Maple flowers of most species are described as inconspicuous. ![]()
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