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Field maple is the UK's only native maple. Find out where it grows, how it helps wildlife and how it is used. With pictures and helpful identification tips.
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Field maple leaves are arranged opposite, their petiole, which can be up to six inches long, contains a milky juice. The leaf is divided into five lobes, the end of the leaf is rounded and has small notches on the edge.
field maple. A medium-sized deciduous tree with a compact bushy crown. Leaves with 5 blunt lobes, turning yellow or red in the autumn. Flowers small, green, forming typical winged maple fruits
The free mobile apps use visual recognition software to help identify tree species from photographs of their leaves. They contain beautiful high-resolution images of leaves, flowers, fruits, petioles, seeds and bark.
Field maple can often be found in hedgerows and scrub, as well as an understorey tree in woodlands. Here's how to identify it.
How to identify. Field maple has dark green, five-lobed leaves, which are smaller and have more rounded lobes than those of Sycamore; they turn golden in autumn. Its small, yellow-green, cupped flowers turn to large, winged fruits when pollinated. The bark of Field maple becomes corky with age.
