Boxelder Maple Tree (Acer Nugundo)

Description: General: Maple Family (Aceraceae): Boxelder is a native tree growing to 20 m tall, with broad roundedcrown, usually developing a shallow, fibrous root system; bark light gray-brown with shallow fissures,becoming deeply furrowed; twigs slender, shiny green, usually glabrous but sometimes hairy. Theleaves are opposite, 13-20 cm long, pinnately compound with 3(-5 or more) leaflets 5-10 cm longand 3-6 cm wide, long-pointed, coarsely toothed and often shallowly lobed. The flowers are yellow-green, about 5 mm long, the male (staminate) flowers fascicled, the female (pistillate) flowers in droopingracemes; most trees are either male or female (the species is essentially dioecious), but bisexual flowersoccur on a few trees (technically dioecious). Fruits are winged nutlets (samaras) in a pair, 2.5-4 cm long, clustered on long stalks. The common name refers to the resemblance of leaves tothose of ash (Fraxinus). Boxelder, its other often used common name, refers to a resemblance to elder(Sambucus) and the use of the soft wood for box making. Boxelder is unusual among American maples in having compound leaves. Apart from the oppositeleaves, seedlings and young saplings of Boxelder bear a remarkable resemblance to poison ivy(Toxicodendron radicans) and are often mistaken for it by beginning naturalists. No Shipping AK, HI

Price: 13.99 USD

Location: McMinnville, Tennessee

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