The difference between maple and red maple

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1. Differences in leaves

2. The difference between flowers

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Leaf differences: The leaves of the chicken claw maple are papery, round, with palmate divisions, and the lobes are oblong; the red maple has single leaves alternately, clustered on the top of the branches, with palmate divisions, and the lobes are lanceolate. Differences in flowers: Acer is purple, with corymb inflorescences; red maple, with corymb inflorescences, terminal.

1. Differences in leaves

1. Differences in leaves

The leaves of chicken claw maple are papery, round, 6 to 10 cm in diameter, heart-shaped or nearly heart-shaped at the base, with 5 to 9 palms. Split like, usually 7-lobed, the lobes are lanceolate, the front end of the leaf is sharp, the edge has sharp serrations, the depth of the lobes reaches 1/2 or 1/3 of the diameter of the leaf, and there is no hair on the surface of the leaf.

Red maple leaves are single and alternate, usually clustered on the top of the branches. , the leaves are palm-shaped and deeply split, with 5 to 9 lobes. The cracks reach as deep as the leaf base. The lobes are long oval or lanceolate, and the edges of the leaves have sharp serrations. The leaves are red in spring and autumn and purple in summer.

2. The difference between flowers

Chicken The flowers of Clawed Acer are purple in corymbs, with a total pedicel 2 to 3 cm long, five sepals, oval-lanceolate, and five petals, oval or obovate, with a blunt apex and about 2 mm long.

Red maple is a corymb inflorescence, which is usually terminal. It is a hybrid flower.

2. The difference between flowers

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