Acer oliverianum

Acer oliverianum has a smooth bark that is jade green in colour, with fine white waxy stripes. It grows up to 20 meters wilderness areas of Taiwan but usually only grows to 5 to 8 meters when cultivated.[1] It has more or less horizontal branches, and looks similar to Acer palmatum the Japanese Maple.

The leaves are opposite and simple being 6 to 10 cm across, with base truncate or cordate. The leaves are 5-lobed and palmate. The lobes are ovate, the middle lobe having 5 to 8 pairs of lateral veins with minor veins finely reticulate.[4]

Flowers are whitish with five purplish sepal . They have five white petals and eight stamen that are longer than the petals.[4]

The fruit are glabrous ranging from 2.5 to 3 cm long that spread at a wide angle.[4]

Acer oliverianum is found in forests and valleys at elevations of 1000 to 2000 metres. It has been found only in Taiwan and China,[1] in the Provinces of Anhui, Fujian, southern Gansu, Guizhou, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, and Zhejiang.[4]

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  Leaves palmate 6-lobed and 7-lobed, less common (palmate 5-lobed most common).
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  The petioles of the new leaves and the new branches are red.
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  The fruit is diptera but there are exceptions.
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  New leaves.
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  Vein.
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  Branches and leaves.
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  The leaves change color in the fall when the temperature drops.
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  The Chinese name "Qingfeng" comes from the bark color of the new branches and young trunk which are green.

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