. 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. 589. — Striped Maple. 3. BROAD-LEAVED MAPLE —Acer macrophyUum Pursh A forest tree of the Pacific coast, attaining a height of at least 32 meters and a trunk diameter of about i meter, and ranging from southern Alaska to southern California, and known also as White maple. The furrowed brown bark is scaly and rather thick. The twigs are quite smooth, at first light green, red in the winter and subsequently gray. When u
. 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. 589. — Striped Maple. 3. BROAD-LEAVED MAPLE —Acer macrophyUum Pursh A forest tree of the Pacific coast, attaining a height of at least 32 meters and a trunk diameter of about i meter, and ranging from southern Alaska to southern California, and known also as White maple. The furrowed brown bark is scaly and rather thick. The twigs are quite smooth, at first light green, red in the winter and subsequently gray. When unfolding, the leaves are densely hairy, but soon become smooth above, and at maturity have only a few hairs in tufts at the axils of the veins beneath; they are nearly orbicular in outline, or somewhat wider than long, the petiole often as long as the blade, the latter deeply 5-lobed, or sometimes 3- lobed, cordate at the base, rather leathery and 2 to 3 dm. across when fully grown, dark green and somewhat Fig. 590. - Broad-Leaved Maple. gaining above; paler and with the veins very prominent beneath, the pointed lobes wavy-margined, coarsely toothed, or again lobed. The flowers are in long, drooping racemes at the ends of the. 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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