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For those of you that are interested below is a description of the Trident Maple.
Acer buergerianum or common name Trident Maple is a species of maple native to eastern China and Taiwan.
It is a small to medium-sized deciduous tree reaching a height of 5–20 m with a trunk up to 50 cm diameter and is widely grown in temperate regions as an ornamental tree. It was introduced to Europe and North America in 1896. The Trident maple lines many streets in Gauteng.
The leaves are in opposite pairs, 2.5–8 cm long (excluding the 2–5 cm petiole) and 3.5–6.5 cm broad, hard, glossy dark green above, paler below, usually with three lobes (Trident); on mature trees the lobes forward-pointing and with smooth margins, on young trees with more spreading lobes and serrated margins. The leaves turn red, orange and yellow in autumn.
The flowers are produced in spring, yellow-green, in pendulous corymbs; they are small, with five greenish sepals and five yellow-white petals about 2 mm long, and eight stamens.
The fruit is a samara with two winged seeds, each seed 4–7 mm diameter, with a 15 mm wing; the wings are forward-pointing and often overlapping each other. Exfoliating dark grey to light grey bark develops on mature trunks
The Trident Maple is a popular choice for the art of bonsai and responds well to techniques that create leaf reduction and is suitable for many style and sizes of bonsai.
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