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|  | | bigleaf mapleAcer macrophyllum Pursh | |
Bigleaf maple is a medium-sized (>25 m), long-lived (>200 years) tree. Its leaves are very large. The fruit has particularly hairy seeds. Honeybees produce a delicious honey from the redolent Bigleaf maple flowers.
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|  | | black mapleAcer nigrum Michx. f. | |
Black maple is a medium-sized (>25 m) tree. The undersurface of its leaf-stalk is dense with brownish, velvety hairs. The First Peoples also used its sweet springtime sap.
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|  | | Douglas mapleAcer glabrum Torr. var. douglasii (Hook) Dippel | |
Douglas maple is a small (<12 m) tree. Its leaves turn a lovely dark shade of red in the autumn. The First Peoples used the wood for a variety of purposes and the bark to make an antidote for poisoning.
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|  | | Manitoba mapleAcer negundo L. | |
Manitoba maple can reach heights of more than 20 m. It is fast-growing and short-lived (<70 years). Recognizable features of this species are compound leaves that vary from 3 to 7 leaflets, and twigs with a whitish bloom. Fruits remain on trees during the first part of the winter.
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|  | | mountain mapleAcer spicatum Lam. | |
Mountain maple is a small (<9 m) tree. As the fruits mature in the autumn they turn red. Its twigs are an important source of food for deer.
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|  | | red mapleAcer rubrum L. | |
Red maple can attain a height of more than 24 m. It scarlet flowers commence flowering in late winter/early spring prior to leafing. The winter twigs and buds are also reddish in colour. The scarlet red leaves in the autumn are awesome!
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|  | | silver mapleAcer saccharinum L. | |
Silver maple is a fast-growing, medium-sized (>20 m) tree. The trunk often forks near the ground and the fruits mature at about the same time the tree leafs. The underside of Silver maple leaf, as the name implies, is silver. This species is tolerant of air pollution and is often planted along streets and roads.
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|  | | striped mapleAcer pensylvanicum L. | |
Striped maple has smooth, striped bark. In the autumn, fruits mature in clusters and leaves turn bright yellow. First Peoples used the inner bark for a number of medicinal remedies.
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|  | | sugar mapleAcer saccharum Marsh | |
Sugar maple can reach heights of more than 35 m. It exemplifies breathtaking autumn colours that vary from yellow, gold and orange to scarlet. Like all maples they have two seed-cases, each containing one seed attached to a long wing. The First Peoples used this species to extract its sweet sap in the springtime.
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|  | | vine mapleAcer circinatum Pursh | |
Vine maple is a small (<10 m) tree that often appears as a shrub. Distinguishing features are its white flowers and fruits with wide-spreading wings. In the autumn, the fruits turn red and the leaves become a spectacular colour of red.
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