Everything about Acer Carpinifolium totally explained
Acer carpinifolium (
Hornbeam Maple;
Japanese: チドリノキ
Chidorinoki "zigzag tree") is a species of
maple native to
Japan, on the islands of
Honshū,
Kyūshū, and
Shikoku, where it grows in woodlands and alongside streams in mountainous areas.
It is a small
deciduous tree growing to 10–15 m tall, with smooth, dark greenish-grey to grey-brown bark. The
leaves are 7-15 cm long and 3-6 cm broad, simple, unlobed, and pinnately-veined with 18-24 pairs of veins and a serrated margin. They resemble leaves of
hornbeams more than they do other maples, except for being arranged in opposite pairs, and in the very small basal pair of veins being palmately arranged as in other maples. The
flowers are 1 cm diameter, greenish yellow, produced in pendulous
racemes 5-12 cm long in spring as the new leaves open; they're
dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate trees. The
fruit is a
samara of two seeds each with a 2-3 cm long wing.
It is occasionally cultivated as an
ornamental plant in temperate regions, mainly as a botanical curiosity to demonstrate the wide range of leaf morphology in the genus
Acer, but also for its bright yellow autumn colour. Both the scientific and common names derive from the superficial resemblance of its leaves to the those of the genus
Carpinus (hornbeams).
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