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Mysterious Maples

This gallery contains 20 photos.

As you walk around the Whiteknights campus you can find at least twenty two species of maples, in the genus Acer (family Sapindaceae). They can be identified by their helicopter-like fruits, opposite branching, and mostly 5-lobed palmately veined leaves (Photos 1-3). There … Continue reading

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