What do maple leaves look like?

Maple is a common name for maple. It is a tall tree of Acer family, with gorgeous color and unique shape. In our country, the ancients knew the ornamental value of maple red leaves for a long time. The literati of all ages favored the leaves of maple. Poems of chanting and depicting are common. Let's take a look at what the leaves of maple look like.

What are the leaves of a maple like?

The leaves of a maple are like palms. Among the many red leaf species in the world, the autumn leaves of the maple are unique, graceful and beautiful, and the autumn leaves gradually change to red or yellow, as well as green and purple, which can be used as shade trees, street trees or companion trees in landscape architecture. configure with other autumn leaf trees or evergreen trees, set off each other and increase the beauty of autumn scenery.

When does the maple leaf turn red?

Maple leaves turn red in autumn. Maple leaves are in autumn, because the temperature drops, causing the green pigment of maple leaves to turn red. In northern China, autumn is from August to October, and the real entry of autumn is not until September, so maple leaves are generally not red until September and October. It gets cold later in southern China, and the maple leaves turn red later.

What kinds of maples do you have?

1. Acer truncatum: deciduous tree, 8cm high, flowering in April and fruiting in August, produced in Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, northern Jiangsu (north of Xuzhou), Henan, Shaanxi and Gansu.

2. Acer truncatum: small deciduous trees with dark gray bark, flowering in May and fruiting in September, found in Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hunan, Hubei, Anhui, Jiangxi, Guizhou and other places, and also distributed in Korea and Japan.

3. Tea-striped Acer: deciduous shrub or small tree, 5 to 6 meters high, flowering in May and fruiting in October, produced in Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Shanxi, Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Mongolia and other places.

4. Blood Acer: deciduous tree, 10 to 20 meters high, flowering in April, fruiting in September, in southwestern Henan, southern Shaanxi, southeastern Gansu, western Hubei and eastern Sichuan.

5. Jianshi Acer: deciduous trees, about 10 meters high, flowering in April, fruiting in September, in southern Shanxi, Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Guizhou and other places.

6. Acer glabra: evergreen tree, 10 meters high, flowering in April and fruiting from August to September, found in southern Shaanxi, western Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan, and also distributed in Nepal, Sikkim, northern India and Myanmar.