FLORIDA SUGAR MAPLE (Acer Floridanum, Pax.). 50 to 

 60 feet. Small, erect-branched, spreading tree, with slender, 

 smooth twigs. Bark smooth, pale, thin, becoming darker 

 and roughened on old trunks. Leaves 2 to 3 inches in length 

 and breadth, with 3 large triangular, wavy-margined lobes, 

 and 2 faint ones at base; veins prominent, surface smooth, 

 shiny, dark above, pale, pubescent beneath, turning yellow and 

 scarlet in autumn. Flowers with leaves in corymbs at ends 

 of side spurs; calyx bell-shaped, yellow; no petals. Fruit, 

 paired keys, \ to f inch in length of wings, divergent. Dist.: 

 Swamps, Georgia and Florida to Arkansas and Texas. 



Color illustration of Red Maple. 



