Europian maples

Maples of Europa & W. Asia ................. for Japanese

Common Name

Botanical Name

Charactor

Distribution

Pict. No

Norway maple	Acer platanoides	well-known	All over Europe Caucasus	301
-	Acer platanoides ssp. turkestanicum	blades thick textured	N.E.Afghanistan Turkestan, Tien-shan	302
Great maple Sycamore maple	Acer pseudoplatanus	well-known	Central & southern Europa, West Asia	303
Field maple Common maple	Acer campestre	well-known	Europe, Northern Africa Southwestern Asia	304
Heldreich's maple Balkan maple Greek maple	Acer heldreichii ssp. heldreichii	5 lobed deeply lobed	Yugoslavia, Greece Albania, Bulgaria	305
Red-bud maple Kaukasus-Ahorn	Acer heldreichii ssp. trautvetteri	like pink cherry when bloom	Northeastern Turkey Caucasus	306
Velvet maple Samt-Ahorn	Acer velutinum	25mtall, leaf huge turn yellow roadside trees in Russia	Caucasus N. Iran	307
Balkan-Ahorn	Acer hyrcanum ssp. hyrcanum	5 lobed, leathery leaflobe rounded petioles long	Croatia, Serbia Bosnia, Yugoslavia Turkey, Iran, Lebanon	308
Montpellier Maple Erable de Montpellier	Acer monspessulanum	leathery leaves semi-evergreen or deciduous, 3 lobed obtuse, turn yellow	the Mediterranean area S. Europe, W. Asia N. Africa	309
-	Acer monspessulanum ssp. ibericum	7cm long, 9cm wide 3lobed, coriaceous	Caucasus, NE Turkey Northern & Northeastern Iran	310
-	Acer obtusifolium (A. syriacum)	evergreen, leathery ovate to 3 lobed and obovate	E.Turkey, Syria, Lebanon Creta, Palestine, Cyprus	311
Italian maple Erable printanier	Acer opalus ssp. opalus (A. italum)	３or ５lobed, obtuse lobes short obtusely toothed	Corsica, Italy, Morocco Caucasus, Algeria, Spain Switzerland, France	312
Bosnian maple	Acer opalus ssp. obtusatum	shorter obtuse lobes	Hungary, Croatia Serbia, Slovenia southern Italy	313
Cretan maple	Acer sempervirens Acer creticum	unlobed or 3lobed	Eastern part of the Mediterranean area	314
Cappadocian maple Kolchischer Ahorn	Acer cappadocicum ssp. cappadocicum	like A. mono milky sap for park and garden	Northren Turkey Caucasus, Iran	315
Divergent maple	Acer cappadocicum ssp. divergens	small leaves, variable in both size and shape	Anatolia, Transcaucasia	316
Lobel maple Italian maple	Acer cappadocicum ssp. lobelii	columnar tree bluish flower	the Gulf of Naples Calabria	317
-	Acer pentapomicum	from Five Rivers 3 lobed, thick	N.W.Himarayas Kashmir, Afghanistan Turkestan	318
Tatarian maple	Acer tataricum	red wings during July	Austria, Hungary Selvia, Romania Caucasus,Turkey	319

Above-mentioned species are based on the document " Maples of the world " by D.M.van Geideren & others, Timber Press. In this list, ssp. means subspecies which is subordinate to species. These are explained in the term of "Related items on Maples".

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