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Maples, Buckeyes & Horse-chestnuts, Golden Rain Tree
Maples (Acer) previously in Aceraceae - Maple Family
Most maple trees have simple leaves with palmate venation and 3 - 5 main lobes. A few have compound leaves and others are simple without lobes. A common feature is that the leaves are opposite and the fruit is a schizocarp, often called a samaras or simply helicopters.
Buckeyes and Horse-chestnuts (Aesculus) previously in Hippocastanaceae - Horse-chestnut Family
Common Features
Leaves are palmately compound and opposite, fruit enclosed in thick husk with seams, with or without small spines, containing one to three smooth, usually globular seeds with white "eye"
| Acer cissifolium - Ivy leaved maple | |||
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| Acer forrestii - Forrest maple | |||
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| Acer griseum - Paperbark maple | |||
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| Acer japonicum - Fullmoon maple | |||
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| Acer negundo - Boxelder | |||
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| Acer nigrum - Black maple | |||
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| Acer platanoides - Norway maple | |||
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| Acer rubrum - Red maple | |||
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| Acer saccharinum - Silver maple | |||
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| Acer saccharum - Sugar maple | |||
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| Acer tegmentosum - Manchurian striped maple | |||
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| Acer triflorum - Threeflower maple | |||
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| Aesculus glabra - Ohio Buckeye | |||
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| Aesculus hippocastanum - Horse-chestnut | |||
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| Koelreuteria paniculata - Golden Rain Tree | |||
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