. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Fig. 605. â Mountain Sugar Maple. â X18. ASH-LEAVED MAPLEâAcer Negundo Linnaeus Negundo aceroides Mcench The Ash-leaved maple, often called Box elder, ranges naturally from western Vermont to western New Jersey and northern Florida, westward to Ontario, Manitoba, South Dakota, Kansas, Texas, and Mexico. It is not native along the Atlantic coast, but is widely planted for ornament. The tree attains a maximum height of abou
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Fig. 605. â Mountain Sugar Maple. â X18. ASH-LEAVED MAPLEâAcer Negundo Linnaeus Negundo aceroides Mcench The Ash-leaved maple, often called Box elder, ranges naturally from western Vermont to western New Jersey and northern Florida, westward to Ontario, Manitoba, South Dakota, Kansas, Texas, and Mexico. It is not native along the Atlantic coast, but is widely planted for ornament. The tree attains a maximum height of about 23 meters and a trunk diameter of meters. It prefers the banks of streams and lakes, or the edges of marshes. The bark of old trees is quite thick, ridged, scaly and hght brown, that of young trees is smooth and gray. The yoimg twigs are green, and either smooth or finely velvety; they become purpUsh and covered with a bloom. The leaves are pinnately compoimd, usually with 3 leaflets, but there are sometimes 5 leaf- lets; the end leaflet is long-stalked, the lateral ones short-stalked; in shape the leaflets vary from ovate to oval, ovate-lanceolate or obovate; they are thin, entire- margined or coarsely toothed, rarely 3-lobed, some- what hairy on both sides when young, smooth above or minutely papillose when old, more or less hairy on the under side when mature, bright green on both sur-. FiG, 606. â Ash-leaved Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Shafer, John Adolph. New York : H. Holt and Co.
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