The difference between maple and sycamore

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1. Differences in leaves

2. The difference between flowers

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Leaves: The leaves of maple trees are oblong, oval or oblong, green, and will turn fiery red in autumn. The leaves of Wutong are larger, broadly oval, and green. Flowers: The maple has axillary racemes with 5 petals, spoon-shaped and yellow. The sycamore flower is in panicles, without petals, and is lavender.

1. Differences in leaves

1. Differences in leaves

Maple leaves are opposite, papery, oblong, oval or oblong, with a long acuminate tip, a wide wedge-shaped base, and slightly reflexed edges. The teeth are dark green and hairless on the upper side, and the back is slightly lighter in color and has soft hairs. In autumn it turns fiery red and falls deep red. The leaves of the sycamore are larger, broadly oval, with a truncate or broadly heart-shaped base, and broad triangular lobes, with downy hairs on both sides, which will fall off to hairless later. The color is green.

2. Differences in flowers

Maple trees have axillary racemes. , has small stipules, the calyx is a linear triangle, 5 petals are spoon-shaped, the stamens and petals are opposite, and the color is yellow. The sycamore has panicles, unisexual flowers, no petals, the lobes are strip-lanceolate, and the color of the flowers is lavender.

2. The difference between flowers

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