Vine maple leaf

Vine maple - Acer circinatum

Characteristics...
  • Shape: palmate (5 lobes)
  • Margin:serrate
  • Venation: palmate
  • Size: 8-15 cm
  • Petiole: 5-10 cm
  • Color: green
  • Autumn color: yellow, orange - red. 
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Sugar maple leaf

Sugar maple - tree species: Acer saccharum

Characteristics...
  • Shape: palmate (3 upper lobes are pronounced, 2 basal lobes are small)
  • Margin: 1-3 points per lobe
  • Venation: palmate
  • Size: 8 - 16 cm (width and length relatively equal)
  • Petiole: 5-13 cm
  • Color: green 
  • Fall color: yellow to bright orange
  • Deciduous
The Sugar maple is the state tree of New York, Vermont, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

Silver maple leaf

Tree species: Acer Saccharinum  -  Silver maple


Acer saccharinum laciniatum-leaves

Characteristics...
  • Shape: palmate (5 lobes)
  • Margin: serrate
  • Venation: palmate
  • Size: 8 - 16 cm
  • Petiole: 5-13 cm
  • Color: green
Alternate common names..
  • creek maple 
  • river maple 
  • silverleaf maple 
  • soft maple 
  • water maple 
  • white maple

Bigleaf maple leaf

Bigleaf maple (Oregon maple) - Acer macrophyllum

Characteristics...
  • Arrangement: opposite 
  • Shape: palmate (5 deeply incised lobes)
  • Margin: spiny / poiny
  • Venation: palmate
  • Size: 20 - 35 cm  (largest leaves of all the maple tree species)
  • Petiole: 20 - 50 cm
  • Color: green
  • Autumn color: yellow - orange  

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Crimson king maple leaf

Crimson king maple leaf - Norway maple - Acer platanoides var

Characteristics...
  • Arrangement: opposite 
  • Shape: palmate (5 lobes)
  • Margin: spiny and wavy
  • Venation: palmate
  • Size: 10-25 cm
  • Petiole: 8 - 20 cm
  • Texture: smooth
  • Color: purple

Norway maple leaf

Norway maple - Acer platanoides

Characteristics...
  • Arrangement: opposite 
  • Shape: palmate (5 lobes)
  • Margin: spiny
  • Venation: palmate
  • Size: 10-25 cm
  • Petiole: 8 - 20 cm
  • Texture: smooth
  • Color: green (purple on some cultivars)
  • Autumn color: yellow, orange - red.

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Box elder maple leaf

Boxelder maple - Acer negundo
Characteristics...
  • Arrangement: opposite 
  • Shape: pinnately compound
  • Margin: unevenly serrate
  • Venation: pinnate (on individual leaflets)
  • Leaflet size: 7 -12 cm
  • Petiole: 5-15 cm
  • Texture: smooth
  • Color: light green when new to dark green when mature
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