NORWAY MAPLE 



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The Maple Familj 



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Habit and Habitat: A medium-sized tree, with a height of 10 

 feet and a trunk diameter i I 8-20 inches, the ascending and spreading 

 ut branches forming a rounded or oval crown. Prefers rich ra 

 i but dors well in rather dry sites; will endure greater 

 nmental conditions than many other maple sped 



Leaves and Bads: Leaves opposite. Bimple, 1-7 inches long and 

 ut the same in width, thin, smooth, bright green upon both Burfa 

 turning pale yellow in tho fall, 6-7-lobed at maturity, the lobe 

 motely and ely toothed, teeth with long tapering points. Beparal 



by rounded SCallop-like indentations; petioles long, slender, expanded at 



the has.-, exuding a milky juice when bruised. Winter-buds yellow-green, 

 red or dull reddish-brown, terminal bud Vt inch long, broad, short-stalked, 

 bud-scales keeled, lateral buds smaller, appressed, buds exuding a milky 

 juice when cut. 



Flowers and Fruits: Flowers produced in May or June, before or 

 with the leaves, large, yellowish-i reen. in short, erect, several-flowered 

 dusters; sepals f>; petals ."">; stamens 8. Fruit a double-winded, dry "key" 

 like the fruit of the other maples, but with equal, widely divergent 

 wings, pendulous on long stalks, ripens in the fall and germinates the 

 following spring. 



Bark, Twigs and Wood: The branchlets are'at first green, shiny, 



becoming brownish; bark on the trunk dark gray and closely fissured, 



not shaggy or scaly. Wood hard, heavy, close-grained, light brown 



with almost white sapwood; used by the joiner, wheelwright and the 



od carver for a great variety of purposes. 



Distribution in the State: Norway maple does not occur naturally 

 in Nebraska or, in fact, in any part of North America, but has come to 

 us from Europe where it is found in abundance from Norway to Switzer- 

 land. The snecies is one of the commonest street trees in this country 

 and it has also been widely planted in parks and upon private estates. 

 Its roots are deeply penetrating and they also spread widely so that it 

 is thereby particularly well equipped to survive the strenuous conditions 

 of a city enviit rment. 



Remark- The Norway maple resembles the common American 

 sugar maple in d many respects, but the acrid, milky juice which 



exudes from the broken petioles is usually sufficient to 'distinguish it 



tn the American tree. The leaves remuhl Upon the tree* fr- m I 

 days to two weeks longer in the autumn than is the case with our na- 

 tive Dies. The tree has be«ui much 'is.-i as an ornamental tree in 



northea.-tern states where it i- long-lived and often planted in pn 



ice to the sugar maple. It is much more hardy than fh* 1 -tie; 

 in x ka and is deserving <>f much wirier use, especially 



Tl ' nianv varieties of the Norway maple. The Schw«»dler 



maple is one <.f the commonest of t 1 b<%autiful novelty with bright 



pur • crimson n wth, bsrlc and leaves, which change lal 



a pnrplisfa riven. Another purnle-lf»aved v Die 



colors throughout th< »« ah'. i striking feat 



ny landscape plan in which it is included. 



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