Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links Acer_palmatum0. ... Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Divisions Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Hepaticophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants Adiantum pedatum (a fern... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also angiosperms) are a major group of land plants. ... Orders see text Dicotyledons or dicots are flowering plants whose seed contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. ... Families See text The Sapindales is an order of flowering plants included among the rosid subgroup of dicotyledons. ... genera See text Sapindaceae, also known as the soapberry family, is a family of plants in the order Sapindales. ... Species with pages written Acer campestre - Field Maple Acer grandidentatum - Bigtooth Maple Acer griseum - Paperbark Maple Acer macrophyllum - Bigleaf Maple Acer micranthum - Komine Maple Acer negundo - Manitoba Maple Acer nigrum - Black Maple Acer palmatum - Japanese Maple Acer pensylvanicum - Striped Maple Acer platanoides - Norway Maple Acer pseudoplatanus - Sycamore Maple Acer rubrum... In biology, binomial nomenclature is a standard convention used for naming species. ... Carl Peter Thunberg (November 11, 1743 _ August 8, 1828) was a Swedish naturalist. ...
Cultivation and uses
It has been cultivated widely by the Japanese and exists in a huge number of cultivars with vast differences in leaf shape, leaf color, bark texture, bark color, size, and growing pattern. It is used frequently in bonsai and is sometimes known as the "Queen of bonsai". A bonsai trident maple growing in the root over rock style. ...
A credible dissenting opinion says that maples do not burn because of exposure to the sun per se, but rather due to the presence of dissolved minerals in the water supply.
Maples are usually shaped by pinching and pruning.
The trunk of a young maple can be shaped by tying it to a stake so that it is bent in the desired shape or kept straight if a formal upright is desired.
FLOWERS AND FRUIT: Flowers of most Japanesemaples are insignificant and the bloom effect comes from the unfolding of the colorful new foliage growth in the spring.
The fruit is a typical maple samara (winged fruit) appearing in the late summer and fall.
Japanesemaples are, as I assume you have figured out without my help, not from Texas.
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