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  Guide to the Common Trees of Pennsylvania

Trees | Glossary | Visual Guide | Leaf Parts, Types, & Position

Norway Maple
(Wide & Flat: Opposite Arrangement)
Imported from northern Europe and extensively planted along city streets and in parks. Norway maple typically reaches 50' high. It frequently escapes from cultivation to grow in disturbed woods and roadways. Norway maple can be distinguished from other maples by the larger leaves, milky sap of the petiole, and the horizontal wings of the fruits.

Norway Maple
Acer platanoides L.
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Leaves
Opposite, simple, coarsely 5-lobed, 4"-7" wide, milky sap exudes from the broken leaf-stalk.
Twigs
Stout, reddish-brown. Buds glossy red with green at the base, bud scales with keel-like ridges. Leaf scars meet to form a sharp angle, encircling the twig.
Fruit
Wings wide spreading to nearly horizontal, maturing in autumn.
Bark
Smooth and light brown on young trees, dark and fissured but not scaly when older.

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Needle-Shaped or Linear

  

Wide & Flat: Opposite Arrangement

Wide and Flat: Alternate Arrangement

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PA Department of Conservation & Natural Resources
 
 

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