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Leaves: opposite, pinnately compound, 3-5 leaflets
Twigs: shiny with waxy bloom that rubs off, have crescent-shaped leaf scars that meet on twig
Buds: have a white pubescence
Fruit: paired samara with slightly convergent wings |
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Habit: looks like sugar maple
Leaves: opposite, simple, 5-7 lobed,
petioles leak milky sap when cut
Buds: scales 2-3 pairs (compare to sugar maple), hidden by petiole, milky sap
Fruit: Paired samara, wings divergent by almost 180 degrees |
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Leaves: opposite, simple, 3-5 lobed, lobes doubly serrate or toothed
Fruit: paired samara, small, wings slightly divergent by 90 degrees
Buds: terminal bud dark red, blunt
Twigs: bright red & lustrous |
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Leaves: opposite, simple; 3-5 lobed
(not as sharp pointed as Norway maple)
Buds: terminal buds have many scales, lateral buds are sharp
Bark: has long irregular blocky plates
Fruit: paired samara with wings slightly parallel or divergent by 90 degrees
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Leaves: alternate, simple, solitary on long shoot, in 3s on short spur shoots, coarsely doubly serrate
Buds: often gummy
Bark: creamy white on older trees, peels off in papery strips
Fruit: singe winged samara, elliptical to oval, borne on drooping catkins in the fall |
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Habit: shrub
Leaves: alternate, simple, irregularly serrate, sometimes doubly serrate
Twigs: persistent catkins typically present
Buds: two-toned
Fruit: edible nut enclosed in bristly husk with a long open "beak" |
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Leaves: opposite, pinnately compound, 7-9 short-stalked leaflets, entire or somewhat serrate
Twigs: have a knobby appearance
Buds: uppermost pair of lateral buds are adjacent to terminal bud
Fruit: single samara, persistent through winter
Habitat: upland sites |
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Leaves: simple, sharply doubly serrate, thin and very tough, petioles pubescent
Bark: loose longitudinal strips give shredded (cat scratch) appearance
Fruit: small nut enclosed in flattened sacs in clusters (looks like 'hops' for beer-making) |
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Leaves: orbicular, finely serrate, petioles laterally compressed
Bark: creamy white to yellowish-green and smooth, becoming gray and fissured
Fruit: capsule, oblong-cylindrical, 2-valved, present May-June
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Leaves: opposite, pinnately compound, 5-7 leaflets, base asymmetrical
Twigs: large spongy pith, purple to yellow-brown, lenticels conspicuous
Buds: very large, purple
Bark: has conspicuous raised lenticels
Fruit: small bright red drupe in upright clusters |
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